The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Including 49 Tales. Vol. 2

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'The Complete Sagas of Icelanders' from Leifur Eiríksson Publishing are the first English translation of the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders together with the forty-nine Tales connected with them. Thirty translators were carefully selected for the project, including leading international scholars and university teachers from seven countries who have studied and written on Nordic medieval literature and culture. All the translators are native English speakers and writers. Careful editorial planning and coordination ensured that translators followed the same translation policy and produced the same high level of accuracy and readability. Coordination work included use of consistent English terms for key words and concepts, recurrent proverbs and phrases, and other cultural realia. Spelling conventions for personal and place names were normalised, as were translations of nicknames occurring in more than one Saga. Eleven Icelandic medieval specialists then carefully checked the translations against the original Icelandic texts to ensure accurate renderings and returned them to the translators for revision. A further revision stage concentrated on the English style, when fourteen native English-speaking scholars read through the translations before the translators gave them a final polish. The publishers are confident that these extensive editorial efforts have produced sound, quality translations. While they reflect the expertise of scholars in this specialist field, a prime concern was to produce a text in smooth and readable modern English. There are probably few examples of comparable coordinated translations of an entire literary corpus into another language. Outlaws and Nature Spirits Gisli Sursson’s Saga 1 The Saga of Grettir the Strong 49 The Saga of Hord and the People of Holm 193 Bard’s Saga 237 Warriors and Poets Killer-Glum’s Saga 267 The Tale of Ogmund Bash 314 The Tale of Thorvald Tasaldi 322 The Saga of the Sworn Brothers 329 Thormod’s Tale 403 The Tale of Thorarin the Overbearing 407 Viglund’s Saga 411 Tales of the Supernatural The Tale of the Cairn-Dweller 443 The Tale of the Mountain-Dweller 444 Star-Oddi's Dream 448 The Tale of Thidrandi and Thorhall 459 The Tale of Thorhall Knapp 462 Contents of Volumes I-V 465