Viking Tales of the North: The Sagas of Thorstein Viking''s Son and Fridthjof the Bold; Also Tegnér''s Fridthjof''s Saga (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Viking Tales of the North: The Sagas of Thorstein Viking''s Son and Fridthjof the Bold; Also Tegnér''s Fridthjof''s Saga<br><br>The Icelandic word saga (saying) implies anything presented in narrative prose and is a term used m reference to strictly historical records of persons and events of the past but it also includes a large amount of half-fabulous and purely fictitious tales which are told in the same narrative form as the genuine historical sagas.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.