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In giving his third talk as the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for this year, Professor Sigarther Nordal will speak on "The Sagas of Iceland" tomorrow in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4 o'clock.
"Scholars have acclaimed the literature of this handful of people living on an artic island as the greatest medieval literature extant before the appearance of Dante's writings," he said. He pointed out further that the Icelandic sagas are the last surviving purely Teutonic literature completely untouched by classic tradition...
The paragraphs: " 'Well, well, well,' George Gipp must be saying just about now, 'Look who's here. Welcome home. Rock." "And there in that happy land, beyond the black, where the stadium is of silver, the goal posts of gold and all games are won, those...
Is the U. S. myth-conscious? Not by a long shot, not by many generations. But national-myth-lovers feel a lack, wish to hurry a natural process and supply some U. S. legends readymade. Here is Frank Shay's gallant attempt. He has gathered (and perhaps embroidered) yarns...
"Plan of Study." No great sagas fancifully encrust the childhood of "Charlie" Hughes. He was born April 11, 1862 at Glens Falls, N. Y. His father, a Welsh immigrant, was a Baptist minister, poor in goods, rich in classic learning. The boy at five started school at Oswego, N. Y...