Author : Jennie Hall Year of publication: 2010 Format: Paperback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: New Category: Childrens books Cost of book: £5.99 Price negotiable: No
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This is a reprint of Jenni Hall's 1902 classic and has been especially republished to raise
funds for charity.Pages 210 ISBN 978-1-907256-74-5
In ancient Iceland every midsummer there was a
great meeting. Men from all over the country came and made laws. During the day
there were rest times, when no business was going on. Then some skald would
take his harp and walk to a large stone or a knoll and stand on it and begin a
song of some brave deed of an old Norse hero. At the first sound of the harp
and the voice, men would come running from all directions, crying out:
"A skald! A skald! A saga!"
There they would stand for hours listening and shouting
applause. When the skald was tired, another would take his place. The best
skalds were well travelled and visited many people. Their songs made them
welcome everywhere. They were always honoured with good seats at a feast and were
given many rich gifts. Even the King of Norway was known to sometimes send
across the water to Iceland for a skald to attend his court.
Initially these tales, or sagas, were not written
for few men wrote or read in those days. When at last people began to read and write,
they first recorded the sagas on sheepskin, or vellum. Many of these old vellum
books have been saved for hundreds of years and are now in museums in Norway.
Some leaves have been lost, some are torn and all are yellow and crumpled. But
they are precious. They tell us all that we know about that olden time. There
are the very words that the men of Iceland wrote so long ago—stories of kings
and of battles and of ship-sailing. Some of those old stories have been told in
this book.
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