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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Bondman, by Hall Caine
Title: The Bondman
A New Saga
Author: Hall Caine
Release Date: October 7, 2010 [eBook #33999]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BONDMAN***
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Transcriber's note
Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected without comment. Word errors have been corrected and a list of corrections can be found after the book. A table of contents has been added below to ease navigation.
The Bondman.
The Book of Michael Sunlocks.
The Book of Red Jason.
A. L. Burt's Publications
The Bondman.
A New Saga.
By HALL CAINE,
Author of "The Deemster," etc., etc.
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay."
New York:
A. L. Burt, Publisher.
To My Son
"Little Sunlocks."
Note.
The central date of this story (a Saga in the only sense accepted among Icelanders) is 1800, when Iceland, in the same year as Ireland, lost the last visible sign of her ancient independence as a nation. But, lest the historical incidents that stand as a background to simple human passions should seem to clash at some points, I hasten to say that I have not thought it wise to bind myself to the strict chronology of history, Manx or Icelandic, for some years before and after. I am partly conscious that the Iceland I have described is the Iceland of an earlier era; but Icelanders will not object to my having tried to bring within my too narrow limits much of what is beautiful and noble and firing to enthusiasm in their old habits, customs and laws. To the foolish revolt which occurred at Reykjavik early in this century I have tried to give the dignity of a serious