London, Edinburgh, Paris, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Toronto and New York: Ehomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1962. — 133 p. In A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two...
London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2011. — 176 p. This, the fourth volume to be published in our Text Series, comprises two remarkable Icelandic tales. The first, Hreþars Þáttr, is in an ancient narrative form. It is one of the oldest Icelandic short stories preserved and its archaic style adds greatly to its interest. The story also gives an insight into medieval...
London: Nelson, 1965. — 219 p. Originally written in Icelandic in the 13th century AD by an anonymous author, The Story of The Volsungs is a legendary saga based on Norse mythology. The epic describes the legendary history and heroic feats of several generations of mythic Viking families and derives from many sources, including preexisting Edda, or heroic poems, Norse legends,...
Brill, 2005. — xvi, 256 p. The book uses sagas and legal texts to re-examine the relations between mediaeval Icelanders and the Norwegian kings. It demonstrates that the Icelanders - partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power - were ready to negotiate with him for their own benefit, and presents a methodological re-evaluation of authorial attributions of the sagas...
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...
Viking Society for Northern Research, 2004. — xxviii + 388 p. Translated by G. Johnston and A. Faulkes. Edited and Introduced by A. Faulkes. The translation of The Saga of Gisli in this volume was made by George Johnston and first published in Everyman's University Library in 1963 with Notes and an Introductory Essay by Peter Foote. It is here reproduced with only minor...
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