THE STORY OF THE HEATH-SLAYINGS
("Heitharviga Saga")
Of Which Only A Part Is Left.

Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #34

Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) sometime in the 12th Century A.D. Author unknown.

The text of this edition is based on that published as "THE SAGA LIBRARY, VOL. II: THE STORY OF THE ERE-DWELLERS, translated by William Morris & Eirikr Magnusson (Bernard Quaritch, London, 1892). This edition is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in the United States.

This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings ([email protected]), January 1998.

CONTENTS

• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER XVI: Thorarin Bids Bardi Concerning The Choosing Of Men
• CHAPTER XVII: Of Bardi's Way-Fellows
• CHAPTER XVIII: Of Bardi And His Workman Thord The Fox
• CHAPTER XIX: Concerning Thord The Fox
• CHAPTER XX: Of The Horses Of Thord Of Broadford
• CHAPTER XXI: Bardi Gathers In His Following
• CHAPTER XXII: Of The Egging-On of Thurid
• CHAPTER XXIII: How Foster-Father And Foster-Mother Array Bardi
• CHAPTER XXIV: Of Thorarin's Arraying
• CHAPTER XXV: Of Bardi's Two Spies
• CHAPTER XXVI: Portents At Walls
• CHAPTER XXVII: The Slaying Of Gisli
• CHAPTER XXVIII: The Call For The Chase
• CHAPTER XXIX: The Chasing Of Bardi
• CHAPTER XXX: The First Brunt Of Battle On The Heath
• CHAPTER XXXI: The Second Brunt Of Battle And The Third
• CHAPTER XXXII: Bardi Puts Away His Wife
• CHAPTER XXXIII: The Speaking Out Of Truce
• CHAPTER XXXIV: Snorri Tells The Whole Tale
• CHAPTER XXXV: Bardi's Affairs Settled
• CHAPTER XXXVI: Bardi Fares And Is Shipwrecked
• CHAPTER XXXVII: Bardi's Abiding With Gudmund
• CHAPTER XXXVIII: Eric's Song On The Heathslayings
• CHAPTER XXXIX: Bardi Goeth To Norway And Afterwards To Iceland Again
• CHAPTER XL: The Second Wedding Of Bardi
• CHAPTER XLI: The End Of Bardi

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

RECOMMENDED READING --

Anonymous: "Egil's Saga" (Translation: Hermann Palsson & Paul Edwards, Penguin Classics, London, 1976).

Anonymous: "Saga of Grettir the Strong" (Translation: G.A. Hight, London, 1914; released as Online Medieval and Classical Library E-Text #9, 1995)

Anonymous: "The Story of the Ere-Dwellers" (Translation: William Morris & Eirikr Magnusson, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1892; released as Online Medieval and Classical Library E-text #33, 1998).

Anonymous: "Laxdaela Saga" (Translation: Muriel Press; The Temple Classics, London, 1899; released as Online Medieval and Classical Library E-text #32, 1997).

Anonymous: "Life and Death of Cormac the Skald" (Translation: W.G. Collingwood & J. Stefansson; Ulverston, 1901; released as Online Medieval and Classical Library E-text #7, 1995).

Anonymous: "The Story of Burnt Njal" (Translation: George W. DaSent, London, 1861; released as Online Medieval and Classical Library E-text #11, 1995).

Jones, Gwyn: "History of the Vikings" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1968, 1973, 1984).

Sturluson, Snorri: "The Heimskringla" (Translation: Samual Laing, London, 1844; released as Online Medieval and Classical Library E-text #15, 1996).