The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Including 49 Tales. Vol. 4

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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. Regional Feuds The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal 1 The Saga of the Slayings on the Heath 67 Valla-Ljot’s Saga 131 The Saga of the People of Svarfadardal 149 The Saga of the People of Ljosavatn 193 The Saga of the People of Reykjadal and of Killer-Skuta 257 The Saga of Thorstein the White 303 The Saga of the People of Vopnafjord 313 The Tale of Thorstein Staff-Struck 335 The Tale of Thorstein Bull’s-Leg 340 The Saga of Droplaug’s Sons 355 The Saga of the People of Fljotsdal 379 The Tale of Gunnar, the Slayer of Thidrandi 433 Brandkrossi’s Tale 442 Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson’s Saga 447 Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson’s Tale 460 Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson’s Dream 463 Egil Sidu-Hallsson’s Tale 465 Contents of Volumes I-V 471