LIFE AND DEATH OF CORMAC THE SKALD

By Unknown Author

Originally written in Icelandic sometime between 1250 - 1300 A.D.
although parts may be based on a now lost 12th century saga.

Translation by W.G. Collingwood & J. Stefansson (Ulverston, 1901).


CONTENTS


[ CHAPTER ONE. ] Cormac's Fore-Elders.
[ CHAPTER TWO. ] How Cormac Was Born and Bred.
[ CHAPTER THREE. ] How Cormac Fell In Love.
[ CHAPTER FOUR. ] How Cormac Liked Black-Puddings.
[ CHAPTER FIVE. ] They Waylay Cormac: And The Witch Curses Him.
[ CHAPTER SIX. ] Cormac Wins His Bride and Loses Her.
[ CHAPTER SEVEN. ] How Steingerd Was Married To Somebody Else.
[ CHAPTER EIGHT. ] How Cormac Chased Bersi And His Bride.
[ CHAPTER NINE. ] Of Another Witch, And Two Magic Swords.
[ CHAPTER TEN. ] The Fight On Leidarholm.
[ CHAPTER ELEVEN. ] The Songs That Were Made About The Fight.
[ CHAPTER TWELVE. ] Bersi's Bad Luck At The Thor's-Ness Thing.
[ CHAPTER THIRTEEN. ] Steingerd Leaves Bersi.
[ CHAPTER FOURTEEN. ] The Bane Of Thorkel Toothgnasher.
[ CHAPTER FIFTEEN. ] The Rescue Of Steinvor Slim-ankles.
[ CHAPTER SIXTEEN. ] How Vali Fell Before An Old Man And A Boy.
[ CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. ] How Steingerd Was Married Again.
[ CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. ] Cormac's Voyage To Norway.
[ CHAPTER NINETEEN. ] How Cormac Fought In Ireland, And Went Home
[ CHAPTER TWENTY. ] Of A Spiteful Song That Cormac Never Made
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. ] How Thorvard Would Not Fight
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. ] What The Witch Did For Them In Their Fights.
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. ] How Cormac Beat Thorvard Again.
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. ] How They All Went Out To Norway.
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. ] How They Cruised With The King's Fleet
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. ] How Cormac Saved Steingerd Once More From Pirates
[ CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. ] The Swan-Songs of Cormac.