Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales

Anonymous

Translated by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon

69 chapters · about 3 h

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CHAPTER I. Of Thorstein Egilson and his Kin,

Of Thorstein Egilson and his Kin,

THERE was a man called Thorstein, the son of Egil, the son of Skallagrim, the son of Kveldulf the Hersir of Norway. Asgerd was the mother of Thorstein j she was the daughter of Biom Hold. Thorstein dwelt at Burg in Burg-firth; he was rich of fee, and a great chief, a wise man, meek and of measure in all wise. He was nought of such wondrous growth and strength as his father Egil had been; yet was he a right mighty man, and much beloved of all folk.

Thorstein was goodly to look on, flaxen-haired, and the best-eyed of men; and so say men of lore that many of the kin of the Mere-men, who are come of Egil, have been the goodliest folk; yet, for all that, this kindred have differed much herem, for it is said that some oi them have been accounted the most ill-favoured of men: but in that kin have been also many men of great prowess in many wise, such as Kiartan, the son of Olaf Peacock, and Slaying-Bardi, and Skuli, the son of Thorstein. Some have been great bards, too, in that kin, as Biom, the champion of Hit-dale, priest Einar Skulison, Snorri Sturluson, and many others.

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William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon's English translation, copied word for word.
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  • Google's notice on its digitised books (Google Book Search usage guidelines) (17 blocks)
  • The Harvard College Library bookplate (Francis Brown Hayes bequest) (4 blocks)
  • The volume's half-title (3 blocks)
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • OCR specks on a blank page (a library stamp read as characters) (8 blocks)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
  • The volume's half-title, repeated (3 blocks)
  • The story's half-title, printed twice, with the printer's signature mark “B” (6 blocks)
  • The OCR read one line of chapter XV's name twice; this garbled first reading (the second reading follows and is kept)
  • Printed ornaments and dividers
  • Music score printed with Ketilrid's stave: the notation as the OCR read it (no words) (22 blocks)
  • Other material that isn't the author's
  • OCR specks on a blank page (13 blocks)
  • The index
  • The printer's imprint and OCR specks on the end pages (47 blocks)