Stories and ballads of the far past

Nora K. (Nora Kershaw) Chadwick, Hromundr Greipsson

Sujets

• Sagas
• Collection
• Icelandic language
• Faroese language
• Ballads

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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STORIES AND BALLADS
OF THE FAR PASTPRESSUNIVERSITYCAMBRIDGE
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AND BALLADSSTORIES
PASTOF THE FAR
FROM THE NORSETRANSLATED
AND FAROESE)(ICELANDIC
AND NOTESWITH INTRODUCTIONS
BY
N. KERSHAW
CAMBRIDGE
PRESSAT THE UNIVERSITY
I I92Pref;ace
few of the Fornaldar NorthrlandaSogur
VERYhave hitherto been translated into TheEnglish.
is of course well but with thisknown,Vohungasaga
*
and 'Storiesthe Stories of theIcelanders/exception
'
of the of are the onlyKings Norway probably sagas
familiar to the of readers. Ofmajority English
the four contained in this volume one
sagas only
the Thdttr Sorli has in before,of appeared English
the which hascontainthough poetry they frequently
frombeen the time of Hickes's Thesaurustranslated,
So far as I am aware no version of ofthe(1705). any
Faroese ballads has in Out of theappeared English.
number which were collected i8ththegreat during
and 1 centuries I have chosen a few which deal9th
with the same stones as the translated here;sagas
and for of I have added a shortpurposes comparison
extract from one of the Icelandic as well as aRtmur,
Danish ballad and of the Shetland Hildina.part
In accordance with custom in works ofgeneral
this kind I have discarded the use of un-accents,
familiar in a few Norse wordssymbols, etc., except
which can behardly anglicised.
thanks are due to the of the Cam-My Syndics
Press for thebridge University undertaking publi-vi PREFACE
cation ofthis and to the staff for theirbook, unfailing
courtesy.
To Professor Thuren of Christiania I am indebted
me to the melodies fromfor kindly allowing print
I have also tohis son's F<erfierne.Folkesangen paa
thank friends in St Andrews andmany Cambridge
for which have to me inhelp they kindly given
various Professor Dr Mait-Lawson,ways, including
land Anderson and the staffs of the two University
and Mr B. Dickins. I wish toLibraries, Especially
thank Professor Chadwick to whom I am indebted
for constant and advice the book.help throughout
N. K.
2 November, 1920.