Excerpt from The Tale of Thrond of Gate: Commonly Called Faereyinga Saga
This story is found in the great fourteenth-century Icelandic MS. known as Flateybook, out up into separate pieces, which are seen when brought together to make a single tale, which we may call Thrond's Saga. This single story must have been put into shape by an Icelander of the School of Snorre early in the thirteenth century. By an Icelander, because of the lack of local colour and the mistakes made as to the geography of the F?rays. By one of the School of Snorre, because of the identity of its classic style with that of the best Kings' Lives composed by Snorre, and of the finest Icelandic Family Sagas of the day. In the thirteenth century, because it mentions Einar Sigmund's son and his brother Scegge as lately stewards or high reeves of the F?reys (chap. 58), and Boglunga Saga speaks of this Einar, o. 1200, as alive (see Orkney Saga, R. S., L 233). Such a date as 1230, therefore, well accords with all the internal evidence the style and character of the story yield.
We have got as far as the single story, but, on examination, it turns out to be, like the Icelandic Sagas of the same period, really a compilation, and though there is no small art shown in the composition, it has not been the compiler's care to smooth the joints out, or to disguise the qualities of the different factors in his compound.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Tale of Thrond of Gate (Frederick York Powell)