The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald by William Morris
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Title: The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald An Icelandic Tale, 1875
Author: Anonymous
Translator: Eirikr Magnusson And William Morris
Release Date: December 20, 2007 [EBook #21394]
Language: English
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THE STORY OF GUNNLAUG THE WORM-TONGUE AND RAVEN THE SKALD
Translated From The Icelandic By Eirikr Magnusson And William Morris
1875
[Transcriber's Note: Thought to be written in the 13th Century]
EVEN AS ARI THORGILSON THE LEARNED, THE PRIEST, HATH TOLD IT, WHO WAS THE MAN OF ALL ICELAND MOST LEARNED IN TALES OF THE LAND'S INHABITING AND IN LORE OF TIME AGONE.
CHAPTER I.
Of Thorstein Egilson and his Kin.
There was a man called Thorstein, the son of Egil, the son of Skallagrim, the son of Kveldulf the Hersir of Norway. Asgerd was the mother of Thorstein; she was the daughter of Biorn Hold. Thorstein dwelt at Burg in Burg-firth; he was rich of fee,