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Stories and Ballads of the Far PastTranslated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes\nAuthor(s): N. Kershaw\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107600454, 978-1107600454\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1921, this book contains English translations of stories taken from the Fornaldar Sgur Northrlanda, or 'Stories of Ancient Times relating to the countries of the North', a collection of Old Norse Sagas edited by Rafn in [tel] and re-edited by Valdimar smundarson in [tel]. The stories contained in this collection deal almost exclusively with times anterior to Harold the Fairhaired (c. [tel], and the colonisation of Iceland. Written texts for the stories as a rule come from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, though the actual manuscripts themselves are generally later. This English edition contains a generous introduction and explanatory notes, making it accessib.