Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. V. Ad : V. AD MISSAM. IN FESTO TRANSLATIONIS MAGNI MARTYRIS. Officium. Gloria et honore coronasti eum et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum. [Ps. 8. v. 5, 6.] Versus. Domine Deus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in omni terra. [Ps. 8. v. 9.] Collecta. Adesto Domine supplicationibus nostris...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. Vi. Ad : VI. AD MISSAM. IN FESTO TRANSLATIONIS MAGNI DUCIS MARTYRIS. (1) Officium. Laetabitur justus [in Domino, et sperabit in eo, et laudabuntur omnes recti corde.] [Ps. 63. 10.] Oratio Collecta. Deus qui immensae pietatis judicio corpus sancti Magni martyris et consulis ad honorem nominis tui revelasti:...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. The Short : THE SHORT MAGNUS SAGA HERE BEGINS THE SAGA OF MAGNUS THE ISLE-EARL. 1. That earl ruled over the Orkneys whose name was Thorfinn, the son of Sigurd Hldver's son; he had to wife Ingibjorg, who was called earl's-mother, she was a daughter of earl Finn Arni's son, but her mother was Bergliot...
Appendices. Appendix B. Extracts : B. EXTRACTS FROM THE NJAL'S SAGA. To Ch. 13. Earl Sigurd and Brian's Battle. 84. Now it must be told how Njal's sons, Grim and Helgi, left Iceland the same summer that Thrain and his fellows went abroad; and were aboard ship with Olaf Kettle's son of Elda, and Bard. They got so strong a wind...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. I. Legend : ADDENDA TO THE MAGNUS SAGA I. LEGENDA DE SANCTO MAGNO. (1) DE SANCTO MAGNO MARTYRE GLORIOSO. Beatus igitur Magnus apud Orchades insulas oriundus fuit, nobilissimus genere et alti sanguinis parentelae. Pater ejus illarum insularum comes et dominus nominatissimus juxta nomen magnorum qui sunt...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. Iii : III. FROM PETER CLAUSON UNDAL'S TRANSLATION OF THE LOST "INGA SAGA"; ALSO CALLED THE CROZIERMENS' SAGA. There arose a great noise both among the Birchshanks and the Croziermen, for that there were many famous men who had lost all their goods and money in that feud. Then that plan was devised th...
Title Page : ICELANDIC SAGAS, And other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen on THE BRITISH ISLES VOL. III. THE ORKNEYINGERS SAGA, With appendices, and etc. Translated by Sir G. W. Dasent, D.C.L. Published by authority of the lords commissioners of her majestys treasury...
Appendices. Brian's Battle : BRIAN'S BATTLE. 154. Now Flosi rides east to Hornfirth, and most of the men in his Thring followed him, and bore his wares east, as well as all his stores and baggage which he had to take with him. After that they busked them for their voyage, and fitted out their ship. Now Flosi stayed by...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. Ii : II. THE BURNING OF BISHOP ADAM. FROM THE FLATEY BOOK. When bishop John died in Caithness, he whom earl Harold caused to be maimed, a man called Adam was chosen bishop in his stead; and no one knew his stock, for the child had been found at some church door. The Caithnesingers thought him rather...
The Story Of Earl Rognvald : THE STORY OF EARL ROGNVALD 61. Cecilia (1) was the name of a sister of earl Magnus, born in wedlock. She was given away east in Norway, and that man whose name was Isaac had her to wife. Their sons name was Kol. Kol (Kalis son) sate on his farms in Agdir, as was written before, and was the wisest...
Untitled : ICELANDIC SAGAS, VOL. III THE ORKNEYINGERS SAGA BY GEORGE W. DASENT [1894] This text contributed by Northvegr.org. Thanks! Title Page Introduction The Orkneyingers Saga The Story of Earl Magnus The Story of Earl Rognvald ADDENDA TO THE ORKNEYINGERS' SAGA I. From The Flatey Book II. The Burning...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. Iii. Horae : III. HORAE IN FESTO TRANSLATIONIS SANCTI MAGNI. Memoria (1) de translatione Sancti Magni martyris et cum hac oratione. Oratio. Sancti Magni martyris tui translationem venerantes te Domine suppliciter, deprecamur, dum tuo in honore solennia ejus colimus, praesens ipsius aeternum capiamus adjutorium...
Appendices. Appendix E. The Story Ofheming : E. THE STORY OF HEMING. Harold the son of Sigurd Swine then ruled over Norway when this Saga was made; he was king over Norway twenty winters; he had two winters on to forty when he became king. He had to wife Ellisif, daughter of Jaroslaf, king in Novgorod, he left her there behind him when he...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. Magnus' : MAGNUS' SAGA THE LONGER. 1. Praise glory and splendour and honour be to Almighty God, our redeemer and maker, for his manifold mercy and grace, which he bestows on us who dwell on the uttermost edge of the world; so that after the saying of the masters who so set it in their books, it seems...
The Orkneyingers Saga : THE ORKNEYINGERS SAGA 1. There was a king named Fornjot, he ruled over those lands which are called Finland and Kvenland; that is to the east of that bight of the sea which goes northward to meet Gandvik; that we call the Helsingbight. Fornjot had three sons; one was named Hler, whom we call gir...
Appendices. Appendix D. Helgi And Wolf : D. HELGI AND WOLF. (From the Flatey Book.) Earl Sigurd Hlodver's son ruled over the Orkneys, he was a great chief. There was a man named Wolf the bad, he abode in Sanday in the Orkneys, he was a great warrior and followed (did not belie) his name. There was a man named Harold who abode in North...
Appendices. Appendix C. Brian's Battle : C. BRIAN'S BATTLE. (From the Saga of Thorstein Hall of the Side's Son.) Thorstein fared abroad and came to the Orkneys. Earl Sigurd Hldver's son then ruled over the isles. He gave Thorstein a hearty welcome and asked him to stay with him, and he was with the earl that winter in much esteem...
Appendices. Appendix F. The Saga Of Edward : F. THE SAGA OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. EDWARD'S SAGA. The saint king Edward in England was the son of Ethelred the son of Edgar, who was the first sole king over England. Of him heard saint Dunstan the bishop the songs of angels in the air when he was born, with that token that in his days holy...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. Ii. Horae : II. HOR IN FESTO MAGNI COMITIS MARTYRIS. In Solennitate (1) Sancti Magni Martyris duplex Festum super Psalmos feriales. [Ad primas Vesperas.] Antiphona. In hymnis fidelium vox pulset coelestia, Magni dum recolitur martyris victoria. Capitulum. Beatus vir. (2) [qui suffert tentationem: quoniam cum...
Appendices. The Foreign Voyage Of Erling Wry Neck : THE FOREIGN VOYAGE OF ERLING WRY-NECK. Erling hight the son of Kyrping-Worm and Ragnhilda the daughter of Sveinki Steinar's son. Kyrping-Worm was a son of Sweyn, Sweyn's son, Erlend's son of Gerdi. The mother of Worm was Ragna a daughter of earl Worm Eilif's son, and Ingibjorg the daughter of earl...
Appendices. Appendix A. How Norway Wasinhabited : APPENDIX A. -- EXTRACTS FROM SAGAS. 1. To chaptes 1-4 (From Fl. Book, 1. 21, 22). 1. HOW NORWAY WAS INHABITED. Now shall be told the proofs how Norway was first inhabited; or how kingly stocks began there or in other lands; or why they are called Skjoldungs, Budlungs, Bragnings, dlings, Vlsungs...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION SHETLAND, THE ORKNEYS, AND CAITHNESS. The two groups of islands, in which the events narrated in the Orkneyingers Saga for the most part happened, are widely different in their geographical confirmation. While the Orkneys lie like Cyclades round Hrossey or the Mainland, and are...
The Story Of Earl Magnus : THE STORY OF EARL MAGNUS 39. Now (7) the sons of earl Thorfinn took the realm after him. Paul was the elder of them, and he took the lead over them. They did not share the lands between them, and yet were a very long time well agreed in their dealings. Ingibjorg earlsmother gave herself away...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. Iv. Ad : IV. AD MISSAM. IN FESTO (1) MAGNI MARTYRIS. Officium. Protexisti me Deus a conventu malignantium. Alleluia. A multitudine operantium iniquitatem. Alleluia. Alleluia. [Ps. 63. v. 2.] Psalmus. Exaudi Deus orationem meam cum deprecor: a timore inimici eripe animam meam. [Ps. 63. v. 1.] Collect...
Addenda To The Orkneyingers' Saga. I : ADDENDA TO THE ORKNEYINGERS' SAGA I. FROM THE FLATEY BOOK. When bishop William the latter was dead, Bjarni son of Kolbein the burly was consecrated to be bishop after him, and he was one of the greatest chiefs and a dear friend of earl Harold. Bishop Bjarni had a great stock of kinsmen...
Appendices. King Eystein's Western Voyage : KING EYSTEIN'S WESTERN VOYAGE After that king Eystein began his voyage out of the land west across the sea, and sailed to Caithness. He heard that earl Harold Maddad's son was in Thurso. He ran in with three small cutters, and came upon them unawares. But the earl had a ship of thirty benches...