Translations From the Icelandic

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Excerpt from Translations From the Icelandic: Being Select Passages Introductory to Icelandic LiteratureNow mark that what information we have about these times and places we owe chie¿y to Icelandic authors it was they who carefully kept these records, handed down by memory from eyewitnesses, and then written, so soon as writing became an art generally practised, which would be when Christianity became the accepted faith in Iceland, a.d. 1000. In fact the best literature that we possess about the north for some four hundred years (860-1260) is in Icelandic.But how came it to pass that this ultimo Tau/e, this island of frost and snow, gave us these treasures? To answer this something must be said of the early settle ment of Iceland.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.