The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the thirteenth century A.D., by an unknown hand. However, most of the material is based substantially on previous works, some centuries older. A few of these works have been preserved in the collection of Norse
The Story of Grettir The Strong by Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Bill Hershey, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE STORY OF GRETTIR THE STRONG TRANSLATED FROM THE ICELANDIC BY EIRIKR MAGNUSSON AND WILLIAM MORRIS 1900 A life scarce worth the living, a poor fame Scarce worth the winning, in a wretched land, Where fear and pain go upon either hand, As