The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

EDDA SAEMUNDAR. Selections from. Tr. by Wm. Morris, 1877.

[Some of the songs from the above are tr. by Morris in his 'Sigurd the Volsung' and 'Niblungs'.]

EDDA STURLUSONART. [The Prose of Younger Edda.] Tr. by Sir G. W. Dasent, 1842.

EGILS SKALLAGRIMSSON SAGA. [10th century.] Tr. by Rev. W. C. Green, 1893. [An Icelandic family history of the 9th and 10th centuries.]

Ranks high among the sagas of action and adventure. Gives a lively account of the first settlers in Iceland.

EYRBYGGJA SAGA. Tr. by Sir W. Scott. Tr. in P. H. Mallet's Northern Antiquities, 1847.

Tr. also by Wm. Morris and [1] Eirikr Magnússon (1892), who describe it as 'a mixture of a saga, or dramatically told tale, and a chronicle record of events outside its aim and purpose'. Period, 884-1031; principal events between 986-98. Written between 1230-60, according to Vigfússon. 'Unquestionably the oldest of all the sagas of Iceland'.

[1] Includes also a tr. of Heiôarviga Saga, 'Story of the Heath-Slayings'.

GISLI THE OUTLAW, STORY OF. Tr. by Sir G. W. Dasent, 1866.

GRETTIR SAGA. Tr. by Eirikr Magnússon and Wm. Morris. 1869.