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Modern Language Conference. The Present State of Investigations about the Finn Saga. Pofessor Schilling. Sever...
Modern Language Conference. The Present State of Investigations about the Finn Saga. Professor Schilling. Sever...
Last evening Prof. Charles S. Smith finished his interesting course of lectures on Icelandic Saga, by treating of Old Norse Poetry. The interest of the lecture lay chiefly in the recitation of portions of poems both in the original and translated; but a summary of some of the poems may be interesting as showing their character...
...Njal of the Saga is a man in intellectual stature above his age and fellows. His was too great a nature, too clear and vigorous an intellect for the Asa teachings entirely to satisfy. The ruins of Njal's hall remain, and for the Icelander only the Thiny-fields, the site of the great moots of the commonwealth, surpass Hlitharendi (end of slope) Gunnar's home, and Bergthorshool (Bergthor's hill) Njal's home in richness of associations...
Icelandic Saga. Old Norse poetry - recitations and translations. Illustrated lecture. Professor Charles Sprague Smith. Harvard...