Nora Kershaw
Published: 2021-03-17
Total Pages: 212
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Book Excerpt: .][Footnote 18: Bugge's edition of the Saemundar Edda, p. 352 ff.; also Ker, Epic and Romance, p. 114 etc.; Vigfússon and Powell, Corpus Poeticum Boreale (Oxford, 1883), Vol. I, p. 501 ff.][Footnote 19: C. P. B., Vol. I, pp. 175 and 501 ff.][Footnote 20: C. P. B., Vol. I, p. 502 ff.][Footnote 21: Always, however, with the proviso that, owing to the avowed literary origin of many of them, the Faroese ballads to some extent form a class by themselves; cf. General Introduction to Part II, p. 166 below.][Footnote 22: Cf. Chadwick, The Heroic Age (Cambridge, 1912), p. 95.][Footnote 23: Cf. the Introduction to the Saga of Hervör and Heithrek, p. 81 f. below.][Footnote 24: Copenhagen, 1901.]INTRODUCTION TO THE THÁTTR OF NORNAGESTThis story occurs as an episode in the long Saga of Olaf Tryggvason--to be distinguished from the shorter Saga of Olaf TRead More