The Tale of Thrond of Gate (Færeyinga saga)

Anonymous

Translated by F. York Powell

59 chapters · about 3 h

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The opening

Of Xb» Lineage of Thrond and Bigmnnd.

rpHEBE was a man named Grim Camban. He first settled J. the Fareys in the days of Harold Fairhair. For before the king’s overbearing many men fied in those days. Some settled in the Ffereys and began to dwell there, and some sought to other waste lands. And the deeply wealthy fared to Iceland, and on her way thither she came to the Fcereys, and there she gave Olof the daughter of Thorstan the’ Red in marriage: whence is come the greatest lineage of the Fserey-folk, whom they call the Gate-beards, that dwell in Eastrey.

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The words
F. York Powell's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 9 places
  • Google's notice on the digital copy and its watermark (18 blocks)
  • The scanning library's marks and Google's watermarks (7 blocks)
  • The series half-title (“NORTHERN LIBRARY. VOL II.”) (5 blocks)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 16 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • The library's shelf mark and the printer's imprint (4 blocks)
  • Blank pages with specks and Google's watermarks (5 blocks)
  • The printed table of chapters (it cites print pages) (75 blocks)
  • The half-title and Google's watermarks (4 blocks)
  • Google's watermarks on the end pages (2 blocks)
  • Printed ornaments and dividers, in 23 places
  • Powell's source reference after the first chapter's rubric (Landnámabók and Biskupa sögur)
  • Other material that isn't the author's