Re: Alan + Laxdaela Saga

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 12357
Date: 2012-06-05

At 6:11:44 AM on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, Fred & Grace Hatton
wrote:

> Are there shorter things that folks would like to
> translate on Mondays for the next two months?

Heimskringla.no has 'Jökuls þáttr Búasonar', which is short
-- just three chapters -- and is a natural to go with
'Kjalnesinga saga'.

<http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/J%C3%B6kuls_%C3%BE%C3%A1ttr_B%C3%BAasonar>

One possibility after that is the rest of 'Tattúínárdœla
saga': Jackson finished it a while back. We (and he) had
left off at the end of Ch. 36. There's an interlude at that
point. As Jackson puts it, '[t]here is a sizable lacuna
between Chapters 36 and 42 in our manuscript'. He
summarizes what 'can be guessed at from the contents of the
fragmentary Veiðrsdrápa ("Song of Praise for Veiðr")' and
picks up with the prose story at Ch. 42. The final chapter
is Ch. 53.

Brian

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