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Iceland 1003 (Icelandic sagas). Snorri Sturluson, 1179 – 1241. From the Sagas of the Norse Kings. With an appendix: The Norse voyages to Vinland about 1000 A.D. Illustrated by Halfdan Egedius, Christian Krohg, Gerhard Munthe, Erik Werenskiold, Wilhelm Wetlesen. [Translated into English by Erling Monsen with the assistance of A.H. Smith. Introduction by Gudmund Sandvik]. Oslo: Dreyer Forlag, 1967, 390 pages, illus, maps on front and back lining papers. Very good in very good dust jacket. (Previous owner has neatly pencilled in the dates of the deaths of some of the artists). This is the first edition, not the reprint by the same publisher of 1973. $27.50
Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose Edda, which is a major source for what is today known as Norse mythology, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings… Read More

Iceland 1005 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). Snorri Sturluson. The Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings. Done into English out of the Icelandic by Samuel Laing, esq., with revised notes by Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson. Three Volumes. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, Paged continuously: Volume I:. ix, 358 p.; v. 2; 5 p. l., 299-618p, Volume III: viii, 717-1070 pages, index. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Some pages still uncut. Volume III only $50.00

Iceland 1004 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). Snorri Sturluson. The Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings. Done into English out of the Icelandic by Samuel Laing, esq., with revised notes by Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson. Three Volumes. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, Paged continuously: Volume I:. ix, 358 p.; v. 2; 5 p. l., 299-618p, Volume III: viii, 717-1070p, index. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Some pages still uncut. ******Volume I only******. $50.00

Scandinavia bftg Berry, Francis. I Tell of Greenland. An Edited Translation of the Saudarkrokur Manuscripts. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul:, 1977, xxi, 205 pages. Good to very good copy in dust jacket. Some roughness to top corner of front free endpaper where a pencil price has been erased. Blurb from dust jacket: "Francis Berry has travelled widely in Greenland, and has drawn on this experience to 'edit and translate' the supposed autobiography of Ingolf Brandsson. Largely attested by saga, historical document and archaeological find, it tells of Ingolf's emigration from Iceland to Greenland as a child and of his lifetime's experiences in that country. These experiences the conversion of Greenland to Christianity and his participation in the Norse expedition to VinlandThe narrative provides fascinating reading for all those interested in Old Icelandic Sagas and in medieval history, particularly the early Norse expeditions from Greenland to Canada and the United States." $8.50 Box 7171

Iceland 1001 (Icelandic sagas). Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen in the British Isles: Volume I. Orkneyinga Saga and Magnus Saga, with appendices. Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887, liii, 426p, errata, reproductions. Book lacks front fly, there is scotch tape residue on front and back lining papers and back endpaper, paper browning, few paper chips, else very good copy of this volume from the Rolls Series. The technical apparatus is in English but the text is in Icelandic. Books on the Orkney Islands are difficult to come across in general let alone such an important early source as this. Very scarce. $150.00 Hall closet

Iceland 1002 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). Romances and epics of our northern ancestors, Norse, Celt and Teuton. Translated from the works of Dr. W. Wagner. With introduction by W.S.W. Anson. Rasmus B. Anderson, editor in chief; J.W. Buel, managing editor. London & New York: Norroena Society, 1906, 4 p. l., iii-vi, 343 p. col. front., 8 plates. Some light shelf wear, nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Many pages till uncut. Viking edition, limited to 650 copies printed, this is Number 25 of the 650.
Contents: Introduction.--The Amelungs.--Legend of Dietrich and Hildebrand.—The Nibelung story.--The Hegeling legend.--The legend of Beowulf.—Legends of the Holy Grail.--Legend of Lohengrin.--Romance of Tristram and Isolde.

Iceland 1000 (Icelandic sagas). The Saga of King Sverri of Norway (Sverrissaga). Translated by J. Sephton. London: David Nutt, 1899, xxx, 288p, index, plus 8 maps. Very good copy. (This is Volume IV of the Northern Library series.) $100.00

Ancient world 1151 The Sagas of Icelanders: a selection. Preface by Jane Smiley; introduction by Robert Kellogg.New York: Viking, 2000, lxvi, 782p, bib, glossary, index, illus., maps. Good to very good copy, no dust jacket. Some occasional underlining, pen or ink, mainly in two sagas.
$10.00 Review: "In Iceland, the Age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures - as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare.
"This new Viking edition of The Sagas of Icelanders, commemorating the thousandth anniversary of Leif Eiriksson's historic voyage, is drawn from the first English translation of the entire corpus of the Sagas, together with the forty-nine connected… Read More

Iceland 004 (Norroena Society). (Icelandic sagas). The Volsunga saga. Translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William M. Morris; with introduction by H. Halliday Sparling, supplemented with Legends of the Wagner Trilogy by Jessie L. Weston; and Old Norse Sagas kindred to that of the Volsungs and Niblung Tale. Rasmus B. Anderson, editor in chief; J.W. Buel, managing editor. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, vi, 340 p., [4] leaves of plates: illus. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, very nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Many pages still uncut.
The Völsunga saga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century poetic rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians). It is one of the most famous legendary sagas, and an example… Read More

Iceland 1007 (Norroena Society). Saxo Grammaticus, (ca. 1150 – ca. 1220). The nine books of the Danish history of Saxo Grammaticus. Translated by Oliver Elton ... with some considerations on Saxo's sources, historical methods, and folk-lore, by Frederick York-Powell... Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson... editor in chief; J. W. Buel, Ph.D., managing editor. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, Paged continuously: v. 1; 5 pl., xxiv, 5-293 p.; v. 2; 5 p. l., 299-618p, index. 1906 Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, very nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. ****Volume II only****. $50.00
Saxo Grammaticus (ca. 1150 – ca. 1220), also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian and author. He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the main advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He is the author of the Gesta Danorum, the first full history of Denmark, from which the legend of… Read More

Iceland 1008 (Norroena Society). The story of Burnt Njal, the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and consellor. Translated from the Njals saga by the late Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L. With editor's prefatory note and author's introduction. Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson, LL. D., editor in chief. J.W. Buel PH. D., managing editor. London/ New York: Norroena Society, 1906, 4 p. l., v-xl, 311 p. col. front., 3 pl. Viking edition, 650 copies printed, #25 of the 650. Some light shelf wear, nice copy, green cloth, paper label, top edge gilt, deckled paper edges. Many pages still uncut. $65.00