Category: History - American
The study which has culminated in the production of the present volume had been pursued for a number of years, and the work itself was approaching completion, when the events of August 1914 necessitated its abandonment, while the writer was called away from literary tasks by t...
The study which has culminated in the production of the present volume had been pursued for a number of years, and the work itself was approaching completion, when the events of...
3. PART I. TRANSLATIONThis passage is common to all versions of the story. The source is Landnámabók, II. 14, which is accordingly the text followed here. The transcript in the Flatey Book is somewha...
4. ill. She was very energetic, and as strong as a man, yet the plaguegot the better of her, and soon afterwards Thorstein Ericson caught the plague, and they were both laid up at the same time: and Grimhild, wife of Thorstein the Black, died. Now...
5. Chapter 49 begins with the words ‘it was next after this thatGizur the White and Hjalti his son-in-law came out with the mission of Christianity, and all men in Iceland were baptized, and Christianity was legally established at the genera...
6. chapter 48 concludes the section of the saga which deals with thedispute between the men of Eyr and Alptafjord. It is in accordance with the usual practice in such cases that the subsequent fate of the principal characters should be briefly i...
7. PART II. DISCUSSIONIn order to judge what historical value should be assigned to the narrative here translated, it is necessary for the reader to have a clear idea of the nature of saga literature...