Chapter I: Icelandic Stories and Fairy Tales

STORIES OF SÆMUNDUR FRODI CALLED THE LEARNED.
I. The dark School 219
II. Sæmund gets the living of Oddi 221
III. The Goblin and the Cowherd 222
IV. Old Nick made himself as little as he was able 224
V. The Fly 224
VI. The Goblin’s Whistle 225
FAIRY TALES
Biarni Sveinsson and his sister Salvör 226
Una the Fairy 235
Gilitrutt 240
Hildur the Fairy Queen 244
A Clergyman’s daughter married to a Fairy Man 253
The Clergyman’s daughter in Prestsbakki 256
The Changeling 257

II. SPECIMENS OF OLD ICELANDIC POETRY
From the “Völuspá” 260
From the “Sólar Ljód” or “Sun Song” 262
From the Poems relating to Sigurd & Brynhild 265
“The Hávamál” or “High Song of Odin” 265

III. POEMS ON NORTHERN SUBJECTS
The Lay of the Vikings, by M.S.E.S. 278
Do. Translated into Icelandic by the Rev. Olaf Pálsson 279
The Viking’s Raven, by M.S.E.S. 281
Death of the Old Norse King, by A.J.S. 286
Do. Translated into Icelandic by the Rev. Olaf Pálsson 287

IV. INFORMATION FOR INTENDING TOURISTS 289

V. GLOSSARY 292