Sveinsson E.Ó. Dating the Icelandic Sagas: An Essay in Method

Viking Society for Northern Research, 1958. — 139 p.I have great pleasure in presenting Professor Einar Ol. Sveinsson's Dating the Icelandic Sagas. This is a pioneer work, for no general treatment of the subject has been published since modern methods of criticism have been applied.
Readers will already be aware of the profundity and the humane qualities of Professor Sveinsson's scholarship, and many will have enjoyed his earlier works, among which I may mention his sensitive Age of the Sturlungs (trans. Johann S. Hannesson, 1953), his penetrating Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njdlssaga (1953), to say nothing of his edition of Brennu-Njdls Saga (1954), a monument of self-sacrificing devotion. The Viking Society is proud to publish a work by so distinguished an Icelandic scholar, and expresses deep gratitude to him, since he has written this volume especially for us.