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The Laxdaela saga. Translated from the Icelandic with an introduction by. . . .
Published by B.W. Huebsch, Inc.,, New York:, 1925
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
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8vo. xv, [3], 302 pp. Embssd & decrtd red cloth, drk blue lettrng on spine (mnr shlfwr, slght rubbng), w/ d.j. drk gray colour w/ red viking ship on frnt cvr, VG/NF copy. First edition of this translation by the famed economist (1857-1929) -- considered by him to be an invaluable ethnological document of the time chronicling a society driven by the blood feud, comprising the close of the Viking Age, and the advent of the Christian faith in Scandinavia. This famous saga, probably composed in the mid-13th century (some have posited that a woman living in Western Iceland authored the work) was set between 890 and 1031 A.D., and contains some of the greatest characters and grandest scenes in Scandinavian sagas, and is second only to Njal's saga in preserved medieval manuscripts.
