Stories and Ballads of the Far Past

Preface

Very few of the _Fornaldar Sˆgur Northrlanda_ have hitherto been translated into English. The _Vˆlsungasaga_ is of course well known, but with this exception the 'Stories of Icelanders,' and the 'Stories of the Kings of Norway' are probably the only sagas familiar to the majority of English readers. Of the four sagas contained in this volume only one--the...