Sturlunga saga: including the Islendinga saga of Lawman Sturla Thordsson and other works, Volum 1

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Side xxxiv - Ari's, in the style and frame of whose works it is entirely moulded, so that although it has not come down to us altogether untouched by the hand of a later editor (Odd the Monk ?), we take it to be clearly his.
Side xlviii - ... interesting to English students from the numerous notices it preserves of the days of the Danish invasions, the settlements, the piracy, the great fight at Brunanburh, &c., though the late date and the epic character of the work, as we have it, of course forbids too literal credence to its vague traditions. The style is bold and vigorous, well suiting the subject, and resembling in a marked degree that of Snorri, who may well have felt an interest in the hero, in whose home, Borg, he himself...
Side xxvii - Saga; on his mother's he was sprung from Hall o' Side, up to whom it is remarkable that the three great Icelandic historians trace their descent on the mother's side; Thorey Saemund's mother being Hall's granddaughter, and Joreid, Ari's mother, his great-granddaughter, Gudny Snorri's mother standing to him both in the sixth and seventh degree of descent. It was from the noble family 1 See the Editor's Essay on Timatal, p.
Side liv - Olafsson's transcript of it (the only one ever taken) was also destroyed, so that all we know of this portion is derived from his recollections, written down a year after, and a few phrases which he had copied out separately. The principal contents are the exploits and death of Viga-Styr, and Snorri's foray to Borgarfiord, the slaying in Norway of Hall Gudmundson, which was the cause of the Heath slaughter. The Lykewake scene must have been very striking, and is referred to in Eyrbyggia. The vellum...
Side xlviii - Kveldulfs son by the tyrant king, whereupon the aged father, who had always been against his son's forming any connection with the new royal system, resolves in despair of vengeance to seek freedom at least. On the voyage to Iceland he dies. But his son Skallagrim settles and becomes lord over broad lands of the best in the new country. But it is with the career of his son Egil, the greatest chief and most famous warrior of his kin, that the main part of the tale is concerned. In his life and character...
Side ccix - Lives, down to and including Sigurd the Crusader. A moderate sized quarto in double columns, or two such volumes as our vol. ii of Sturlunga would hold them and what is left of Skioldunga as well. d. A Corpus Poeiicum, a much-needed work, which besides the Lays of the Edda collection should contain the other remains of the Classic Poetry arranged and properly classified. One volume. These with the present Sturlunga (two vols.) and the Biskupa Sögur (one vol.), which have already appeared, would...
Side xlix - Saga, which is otherwise obscure. The old legend shot forth from its ancient Scandinavian home into two branches, one to England, where it was turned into an epic, and one to Iceland, where it was domesticated and embodied in a popular Saga, tacked to the name of an outlaw and hero.
Side xxvii - Historian (froöi), was born in 1067, of a noble family sprung from Queen Aud and King Olaf the White, from whom he was eighth in descent. Of his lineal ancestors five were born in Iceland, two in the heathen days, three in the Christian times, but only one died a heathen ; his sixth lineal ancestor, the Settler Olaf Feilan, was born in the Western Islands (probably in Dublin), but died in Iceland. On his father's side Ari was the great-grandson of Gudrun the heroine of the Laxdaela Saga; on his...
Side xxxi - Sturla was only thirty years of age, which would not give him time to have written any considerable part of such a work. On the other hand Landnama is often cited (though not by name) in the Sagas, being the groundwork or matrix to them as it were ; and in style and character lying behind and beyond all other Icelandic literature. We have therefore no hesitation in ascribing to Ari and his contemporary, Kolskegg, the sole authorship of this peerless work, an opinion entirely in consonance with all...
Side xxv - ... his subject, no description of scenery, no reflections of his own ever break the flow of the story. He is a heathen with the heathen, a wrathful man with the avenger, and a sorrowful man with the mourner, as his style reflects the varied feelings of his dramatis personne.

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