Hamlet in Iceland; Being the Icelandic Romantic Ambales Saga (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...with vigorous onset, wherein the king himself was the keenest, with a spear and sword in either hand, so that he might cut and thrust at the same time. There many a man gat him a swift and direful death. The piles of dead trunks were many and high and reached up to the shoulders of men. Vilhjalmur came nearest the king in renown and valour. All the men who were with the king fought keenly, so that the heathens began to flee, for they were slain in heaps both on the battle-field and on the route, so that the country-side was covered with the trunks of the dead. The kings had now perforce to call upon their men to flee, and they had unwillingly to leave their camp behind with all the wealth thereto belonging, for they had been chased far from it. King Balant drove the rout while day lasted, and when the sun had set he turned and bade his men desist. And they rode home to the city, and by reason of the darkness and of the watch, he did not ride into the camp, but rested the night in his palace chamber. In the morning the king bade his men fetch the booty X. herbudir, var so gjort og bjuggust peir ad drepa vaktina. T6ku peir nu allt herfangid, med Tjoldum beggja konganna, var Dixin og ur fjotrum fserdur og heimfluttur, 120 fundust peir kongur og hann med hinni mestu blidu og storri sigurhrosan, vard monnum katt af Flotta konganna. Balant kongur baud ad hreinsa vigvolluna, og ldt kasta kroppum daudra manna i djiip votn, og Siki, og pvo vollinn med vatni og sa yfir hann Salti. Settist kongr 125 nii um kyrrt med storri gledi, og skipti herfanginu med peim gersemum er par v6ru ad fa medal sinna manna, pi hah peinkti ottalaust i nddum sinu Riki ad halda. Nu vikur Soguiii aptur til konganna, ad peir hofdu leigid med her sinn allan undir berum himni, og Jwktust Smanar...