Chapter Xiii. Gisli Goes To Ingialld : p. 75 CHAPTER XIII. GISLI GOES TO INGIALLD. Now all is quiet, and Gisli goes again to Thorgerda, and is with her another winter. But the summer after he goes back to Geirthiofsfirth, and is there till autumn draws near. Then he goes once more to his brother Thorkel and knocks at the door, but...
Introduction : p. xv INTRODUCTION. THE events described in the Saga of Gisli the Soursop reach from the end of Harold Fairhair's reign to the middle of the reign of Earl Hacon the Bad, or from about the year 930 to 980. Nothing can be livelier or more truthful than the account contained in it of Norwegi...
Chapter Vi. Gisli And Thorkel Part : p. 29 CHAPTER VI. GISLI AND THORKEL PART. THORKEL the Soursop was very fond of dress and very lazy; he did not do a stroke of work in the housekeeping of those brothers; but Gisli worked night and day. It fell on a good drying day that Gisli set all the men at work hay-making, save his brother...
Chapter X. Gisli Betrays Himself : p. 56 CHAPTER X. GISLI BETRAYS HIMSELF. Now Thorgrim's ale of heirship is brewed and drunk, and Bork gives good gifts to many of his friends. The next thing we have to say is, that Bork bargains with Thorgrim Bottlenose that he should work spells and charms, by which no man should be able to house...
Notice : p. vii NOTICE. THIS English version of the Gisli Saga is formed out of a fusion of the two Icelandic texts which have come down to us; the elder text having been generally followed, and the younger used to supply deficiencies. It is needless to speak of the story unless it can speak for itself...
Chapter Iv. The Soursops In Iceland : p. 19 CHAPTER IV. THE SOURSOPS IN ICELAND. WELL, they had a long and hard passage, and are out more than a hundred days: they made the north of the island, and coasted it westward along the Strand, and so on west off the firths. At last they ran their ship into Dyrafirth, at the mouth...
Chapter Vii. Vestein Comes Back To Iceland : p. 35 CHAPTER VII. VESTEIN COMES BACK TO ICELAND. GISLI made a feast, and bade his friends to it he wished to have a gathering, and so to welcome both the winter and his friends; but he had left off all heathen sacrifices since he had been in Viborg with Sigrhadd. He bade to the feast both...
Chapter Ix. Thorgrim's Slaying : p. 49 CHAPTER IX. THORGRIM'S SLAYING. Now the games ceased, and the summer comes on, and there was rather a coldness between Thorgrim and Gisli. Thorgrim meant to have a harvest feast on the first night of winter, and to sacrifice to Frey. He bids to it his brother Bork, and Eyjolf the s...
Chapter Iii. The Burning Of The Old House : p. 13 CHAPTER III. THE BURNING OF THE OLD HOUSE. As for Thorkel, who had been Kolbein's greatest friend, he could not bear to be at home, nor would he change swords with Gisli, but went his way to a man called Duelling Skeggi, in the isle of Saxa. He was near akin to Kolbein, and in his house...
Chapter Xiv. Gisli Slips Through Bork's Fingers : p. 81 GISLI SLIPS THROUGH BORK'S FINGERS. CHAPTER XIV. GISLI SLIPS THROUGH BORK'S FINGERS. So they parted; and Bork and his men row to the isle, and land, and see the men on the Vadsteinberg, and make thither, and think they have done a good stroke of business. But all the while it was only...
Chapter Xv. Thorkel's Slaying : p. 87 CHAPTER XV. THORKEL'S SLAYING. Now the story goes on that next spring Bork fares to Thorskafirth Thing with a great company, and means to meet his friends there. Gest sails from the west from his house at Redsand on Bardastrand, and Thorkel Soursop comes too, each in his own ship. But just...
Title Page : p. i THE STORY OF GISLI THE OUTLAW. p. ii "Printed by R. Clark", FOR EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS, EDINBURGH. p. iii GISLI IN SBOL. THE STORY OF GISLI THE OUTLAW From The Icelandic BY GEORGE WEBBE DASENT D.C.L. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. E. ST. JOHN MILDMAY Graysteel EDINBURGH: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS [1866]...
Chapter Viii. Vestein's Slaying : p. 42 CHAPTER VIII. VESTEIN'S SLAYING. IT came out, too, at that feast that Gisli was restless at night, two nights together. He would not say what dreams he had, though men asked him. Now comes the third night, and men go to their beds, and when they had slumbered a while a whirlwind fell...
Chapter Xvii. Gisli's Evil Dreams : p. 100 CHAPTER XVII. GISLI'S EVIL DREAMS. So now that summer glides by, and Gisli abides in his earth-house, and is wary of himself, and does not mean to go away any more. For he thinks that the earths are stopped all round about him, and now the years of his dreaming are all spent. It chanced one...
Chapter V. The Soursops Abroad : p. 25 CHAPTER V. THE SOURSOPS ABROAD. THAT summer, there came a ship from the sea into Dyrafirth, owned by two brothers, Norsemen. One's name was Thorir, and the other's Thorarinn. They were men from "the Bay," in South Norway. The story runs that Thorgrim the Priest rides to the ship, and buys...
Chapter Xi. Gisli An Outlaw : p. 61 CHAPTER XI. GISLI AN OUTLAW. So Bork and his men rode on after that by the path over the sands till they get across the mouth of Sandwater; there they get off their horses and bait. Then Thorkel says he wishes to see his brother-in-law Aunund, and that he will ride on hard before them. But...
Chapter Xii. Gisli Begins To Dream : p. 68 CHAPTER XII. GISLI BEGINS TO DREAM. THE next three years Gisli was sometimes in his house at Geirthiofsfirth, and sometimes with Thorkel the Wealthy, harboured by stealth. Other three years he spent in roaming over the land, and going from house to house asking help and countenance...
Chapter Xvi. Spy Helgi And Havard : p. 93 CHAPTER XVI. SPY-HELGI AND HAVARD. IT is said that now only two more years were left of those which the dream-wife had said he had to live. And as time goes on, and Gisli is in Geirthiofsfirth, all his dreams come back on him, and he has hard struggles in his sleep; and now the worse...
Untitled : The story of Gisli the Outlaw, one of the minor Icelandic sagas, was first translated into English by George Dasent, who also wrote Popular Tales from the Norse. Dasent was a skilled linguist, folklorist, and journalist, and had a good feel for story-telling. This is a story of cyclic...
Chapter Ii. Kolbein's Killing : p. 8 CHAPTER II. KOLBEIN'S KILLING. Now after that Ingibjorga longed to get away from Surnadale, and went home to her father with her goods. As for Thorbjorn, he looked about for a wife, and went east across the Keel to Fressey, and wooed a woman named Isgerda, and got her. After that he went back...
Chapter Xix. Thordisa's Welcome To Eyjolf : p. 112 CHAPTER XIX. THORDISA'S WELCOME TO EYJOLF. Now Eyjolf fares from home with eleven men to see Bork the Stout, and then he told him these tidings and the whole story. Bork was merry at that, and bade Thordisa make Eyjolf welcome. "Bear in mind now all thy old love for my brother Thorgrim...
Chapter I. The Thrall's Curse : p. 1 GISLI THE OUTLAW. CHAPTER 1. THE THRALL'S CURSE. AT the end of the days of Harold Fairhair there was a mighty lord in Norway whose name was Thorkel Goldhelm, and he dwelt in Surnadale in North Mren. He had a wedded wife, and three sons by her. The name of the eldest was Ari, the second w...
Chapter Xviii. Gisli's Slaying : p. 105 GISLI, AUDA, AND GUDRIDA. CHAPTER XVIII. GISLI'S SLAYING. Now Gisli had stayed at home all that summer, and all had been quiet. At length the very last night of summer came. Then we are told Gisli could not sleep, nor could any of these three, Gisli, Auda, or Gudrida, sleep. The weather w...