Stories and Ballads of the Far Past / Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes

by Nora K. Chadwick

[Footnote 5:] Eddica Minora, pp. 106-120.

[Footnote 6:] Cf. Forord to N. M. Petersen's edition of Hervarar Saga ok Heithreks Konungs (published by the 'Nordiske Literatur-Samfund,' Copenhagen, 1847).

[Footnote 7:] See Fornaldarsögur Northrlanda (Reykjavík, 1891), Vol. i, pp. 309-360.

[Footnote 8:] Copenhagen, 4th edition, 1889.

[Footnote 9:] Oldnorske og Oldislandske Litteraturs Historie, Vol. i, p. 201.

[Footnote 10:] Geschichte der Norwegisch-Isländischen Literatur (Strassburg, 1904), p. 605.]

THE SAGA OF HERVÖR AND HEITHREK[°]

Here begins the Saga of King Heithrek the Wise.

I. It is said that in the days of old the northern part of Finnmark was called Jötunheimar, and that there was a country called Ymisland to the south between it and Halogaland. These lands were then the home of many giants and half-giants; for there was a great intermixture of races at that time, because the giants took wives from among the people of Ymisland.