The Vikings of the Baltic, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of the North in the Tenth Century (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Vikings of the Baltic, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of the North in the Tenth Century

Fornmanna Stigur.' matters of critical history to such authorities as Munch and Dahlmann, it is enough for our present purpose to point out the fact that the poetic treatment of the story of these Vikings, as it was rounded into shape in the Icelandic of the fourteenth century, has a truth and warmth and beauty of its own which far outweigh the worth of any historical skeleton, however care fully its dry bones may have been collected and strung together.

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