Gudrid the Fair: A Tale of the Discovery of America

· 1923

"The Forest Lovers," "The Life and Death of Richard Yea and Nay," "Love and Lucy," etc. This tale is founded upon two sagas, which have been translated literally and without attempt to accord their discrepancies by York Powell and Vigfussen in their invaluable _Origines Icelandicae_. As well as those versions I have had another authority to help me, in Laing's _Sea-Kings of Norway_. I have blent the two accounts into one, and put forward the result with this word of explanation, which I hope will justify me in the treatment I have given them.…

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