Translator’s Preface.
This Translation was undertaken to further my own studies in the Old Norse, it has been lately revised, or rather rewritten, and is now offered to the English reader in the hope that it may excite attention toward a language and literature, of vast importance to the English student, but hitherto little understood or valued in England.
Of the characteristics of our age, not the least curious assuredly is its indifference to what was done before it; we are so eagerly bent on going forward that we cannot spare a glance behind. „No matter what our Forefathers said or did, their time is gone by, ours is come in; peace be to their ashes! but let us move on. And so we scramble on, whither we
