I read the earlier translation some years ago; I hear that the new translation
is WAY better...

Larry

llama_nom wrote:

> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, LM <lavrans@...> wrote:
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> > The only real reference I've ever seen is in the tetralogy "Kristen
> > Lavransdottar" by Norwegian author Sigrid Undset.
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> I must get round to reading more of that book sometime. Apart from
> being brilliantly written, it has lots of great period detail, like
> the dangers of escaped farm animals (which is something that crops up
> in Vápnfirðinga saga and the Guta lagh law code of Gotland). It
> quotes from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka at one point. Even the quaint,
> but ominous, detail about not letting young children sleep near to big
> drunk men, for fear of a rolling-over tragedy, is mentioned in the
> Guta lagh.
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