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Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Modern Icelandic Plays, by Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Translated by Henninge Krohn Schanche
Title: Modern Icelandic Plays
Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm
Author: Jóhann Sigurjónsson
Release Date: June 25, 2007 [eBook #21937]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MODERN ICELANDIC PLAYS***
E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Starner,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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The first few pages of the book, before the Contents, have been rearranged in the order 4, 5, 2, 1, 3. Dividing lines show the original page breaks. Page numbers in [brackets] were not printed in the book, but are extrapolated from adjoining pages.
Variation between ö (Introduction and Advertising sections, including all references to "Björnstjerne Björnson") and ø (names within the plays) is unchanged. The letters á and æ do not occur in the translations.
MODERN ICELANDIC PLAYS
EYVIND OF THE HILLS
THE HRAUN FARM
BY
JÓHANN SIGURJÓNSSON
TRANSLATED BY
HENNINGE KROHN SCHANCHE
NEW YORK
THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1916
Copyright, 1916, by The American-Scandinavian Foundation
All Stage Rights reserved by Henninge Krohn Schanche
D. B. Updike · The Merrymount Press · Boston · U.S.A.
SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS
VOLUME VI
·.·
MODERN ICELANDIC
PLAYS
This series of Scandinavian Classics is published by The American-Scandinavian Foundation in the belief that greater familiarity with the chief literary monuments of the North will help Americans to a better understanding of Scandinavians, and thus serve to stimulate their sympathetic coöperation to good ends.
ESTABLISHED BY
NIELS POULSON
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION | vii |
| EYVIND OF THE HILLS | 1 |
| THE HRAUN FARM | 81 |
INTRODUCTION
BOTH volumes of the Scandinavian Classics selected to appear in 1916 are by natives of Iceland. They belong, however, to periods of time and to modes of writing remote from each other. Snorri Sturluson, the greatest of Icelandic historians, was born in 1179. His Prose Edda, the companion-piece of the present