Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Part 40

_The Elder or Poetic Edda_, Part I, _The Mythological Poems_, translated and edited by Olive Bray; printed for the Viking Club, 1908.

_The Edda of Saemund_, translated by B. Thorpe, published by Trubner and Co., London, 1866.

_The Prose Edda_, translated by A. G. Brodeur, New York, 1916.

Saxo Grammaticus, _Danish History_, Books I-IX, translated from the Latin by Professor Elton; published by D. Nutt, 1894 (the numbers in the notes refer to the pages of the translation, and not to the original Latin).

_The Heimskringla_, translated by W. Morris and E. Magnusson; published by B. Quaritch in _The Saga Library_, 1889.

_The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason_, translated by J. Sephton and published by D. Nutt in _The Northern Library_, London 1895 (different from _The Story of Olaf Tryggvison_ contained in the _Heimskringla_).

_Islands Landnamabok_--'The Book of the Settlement of Iceland,' translated by T. Ellwood and published at Kendal, 1898.

_The Story of Egill Skallagrimsson_, translated by W. C.

Green, published by Elliot Stock, 1893.

_Grettissaga--The Story of Grettir the Strong_, translated by E. Magnusson and W. Morris, published by Longmans, Green and Co. (new edition), 1900. Also translated by G. A. Hight in Dent's _Everyman_ Series.

_Brennu Njalssaga--The Story of Burnt Njal_, translated by G.

W. Dasent; published by Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh 1861; republished by Dent in the _Everyman_ Series.

_Three Northern Love Stories and other tales_, translated by E. Magnusson and W. Morris. 2nd ed. 1901.

_Volsunga Saga--The Story of Sigurth the Volsung_, translated by W. Morris and E. Magnusson; published by the 'Walter Scott'

Publis.h.i.+ng Co. Ltd., London and Felling-on-Tyne.

_The Nibelungenlied--The Lay of the Nibelung Men_, translated into verse by Arthur S. Way; published at the Cambridge University Press, 1911. Also _The Lay of the Nibelungs_, translated into prose by Alice Horton, and edited by Edward Bell; published by George Bell and Sons, London, 1898. Also _The Fall of the Nibelungs_, translated by M. Armour in Dent's _Everyman_ Series.

A further list of English translations of sagas not referred to in this book will be found in Craigie's _Icelandic Sagas_, ch. VII, p.

110. A list of foreign translations, especially translations into the various Teutonic languages, will be found in _Islandica_, issued by the Cornell University Library, Vol. V, compiled by Halldor Hermansson, 1912, pp. 3-7 (general) and _pa.s.sim_.

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Transcriber's Note:

Throughout this book 'I' (Roman numeral 'one') has been used for '1'

(one). In the case of 'II' and 'III' it is not always clear whether the Author referred to 2, or 11 (eleven); or 3, or 111 (one hundred and eleven). (The number keys on some old typewriters only contained numerals 2 to 9. Capital 'I' was used for '1', and capital 'O' for zero).

Page 239: Irish Gaelic: Original had dots over the letters 'c', 'm', 'd' and 'g'. 'c', 'm', 'd' and 'g', with dots above, are shown as [.c], [.m], [.d] and [.g].

"In the Irish _Lay of Magnus Barelegs_, the Norwegians are referred to as _Clann an da [.c]o[.m]airlea[.c] deag_ ('children or clan of the twelve councillors'). Cf. _Laoi[.d] Ma[.g]nius Moir_ (_Reliques of Irish Poetry_, by Charlotte Brooke, Dublin 1789, p. 274)."

Accents on proper names are not necessarily consistent throughout this Book.

Errata

Sundry missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired.

Text corrections:

Page 81: 'Hyndlulj[=o]th' corrected to 'Hyndluljoth' Other occurence in this book: 'Hyndluljoth' (no macron); ... elsewhere: [Hyndluljo]

(Wikipedia). (The 'o' had a macron (line over, indicated as [=o]) as well as the acute accent).

Page 180: 'bridal' corrected to 'bridle' ... "But Sigurth pulled hardest the bridle rein."

Page 240: 'wou d' corrected to 'would' - missing letter replaced: "XI.

_I would that I had that_, etc."