Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ICELANDIC SAGA.Professor Charles Sprague Smith, of New York, will deliver a course of five illustrated lectures upon the Icelandic Saga during November and December. The subjects and dates are as follows...
Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Art the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity...
Friday, Nov. 27. - The life of a viking and poet, Egil's Saga...
Wednesday, Dec. 2. - Family life in Iceland, viking voyages, blood feuds and disputes at the Althing. Njal's Saga...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers yesterday it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in the votes appointing Charles Sprague Smith lecturer on the Icelandic Saga for 1891-92, and Professor William J. Tucker, D. D., and Rev. Brooke Herford, lecturers in the Divinity School, on pastoral care and the conduct of worship for 1891-92; reappointing as preachers to the University for 1891-92, Brooke Herford, Lyman Abbott, D. D., Henry Van Dyke, D.D., and appointing as preachers to the University for 1891-92, Charles C. Everett, D. D., and Leighton Parks, D. D.; also appointing...