The Saga Library, Volume 2: The Story of the Ere-Dwellers, with The Story of the Heath-Slayings
Translated by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon
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CHAPTER I. HEREIN IS TOLD HOW KETIL FLATNEB PARES TO WEST-OVER-SEA.
KETIL FLATNEB was hight a famous hersir in Norway; he was the son of Biorn Rough-foot, the son of Grim, a hersir of Sogn. Ketil Flatneb was a wedded man; he had to wife Yngvild, daughter of Ketil Wether, a hersir of Raumarik; Biorn and Helgi were hight their sons, but their daughters were these, Auth the Deep-minded, Thorun the Horned, and Jorun Manwitbrent. Biorn, the son of Ketil, was fostered east in lamtaland with that earl who was called Kiallak, a wise man, and most renowned; he had a son whose name was Biorn, and a daughter hight Giaflaug. That was in the days when King Harald Hairfair.came to the rule of Norway. Because of that unpeace many noble men fled from their lands out of Norway; some east over the Keel, some West-over-the-sea. Some there were withal who in winter kept themselves in the South-isles, or the Orkneys, but in summer harried in Norway and wrought much scathe in the kingdom of Harald the king.
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About this edition
- The words
- William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 3 places
- The binder's label of the scanned copy (“HANDBOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS”) (2 blocks)
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 3 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The printer's imprint (“CHISWJCK PRESS :— C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO.”, as the OCR reads it)
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 19 places
- A preface, foreword or afterword, in 3 places
- The half-title “APPENDIX.”; each appendix keeps its own heading
- Pictures and their captions
- The index