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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Prof. Smith introduced his lecture last night by a pretty description of Monad-nock and the surrounding country, the various parts of which reflect the images of the lives and characters of Art, Egil, and Njal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Njal's Saga. | 12/4/1891 | See Source »

...heroes in the ninth and tenth centuries, in verse form. Of these sagas few remain. The manuscripts were kept so carelessly exposed to a rough climate that most of them have disappeared. One of the oldest and most interesting of the long sagas is the story of Egil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icelandic Saga. | 12/3/1891 | See Source »

...sailed for Iceland. On the way, Wolf died, having requested that his body be placed in a chest and set afloat and also that Grim should settle wherever the chest was washed ashore. The request was followed out implicitly. Grim had also two sons, one of them the hero Egil. He was a precocious youth; a bit of poetry remains, which he is said to have written in his third year. He grew up, courageous and bold, and began the villianous side of his career when he was eleven by killing a playmate. Later he went to England and aided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icelandic Saga. | 12/3/1891 | See Source »

Icelandic Saga. The life of a viking and poet, Egil's Saga. Illustrated Lecture. Professor Charles Sprague Smith of New York. Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 12/2/1891 | See Source »

Wednesday, Dec. 2. - The life of viking and poet, Egil's Saga...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 11/28/1891 | See Source »

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