VIKING TALES
Compiled and Retold by Jennie
Hall
A GREAT READ FOR
YOUNG VIKINGS!
15 Viking stories and
tales in an easy-to-read edition for young children PLUS a Geographical outline
of Viking lands, Customs, Norse Mythology, significant Incidents, a Pronouncing
Index and a guide to pronunciation for those hard to understand words and
names.
In ancient Iceland every
midsummer there was a great meeting. Men from all over the country came and
made laws. During the day there were rest times, when no business was going on.
Then some skald would take his harp and walk to a large stone or a knoll and
stand on it and begin a song of some brave deed of an old Norse hero. At the
first sound of the harp and the voice, men would come running from all
directions, crying out:
"A skald! A skald! A
saga!"
There they would stand
for hours listening and shouting applause. When the skald was tired, another
would take his place. The best skalds were well travelled and visited many
people. Their songs made them welcome everywhere. They were always honoured
with good seats at a feast and were given many rich gifts. Even the King of
Norway was known to sometimes send across the water to Iceland for a skald to
attend his court.
Initially these tales, or
sagas, were not written for few men wrote or read in those days. When at last
people began to read and write, they first recorded the sagas on sheepskin, or
vellum. Many of these old vellum books have been saved for hundreds of years
and are now in museums in Norway and Iceland.
Some pages have been
lost, some are torn and all are yellow and crumpled. But they are precious.
They tell us all that we know about that olden time. There are the very words
that the men of Iceland wrote so long ago—stories of kings and of battles and
of ship-sailing. Some of the most significant old stories are now told in this
book.
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