Kormak's Saga (Part 1)

We inaugurate our first "Saga Summer" a bit late this year, but starting with an early poet's saga, a tale of love and betrayal, duels and magic. This is Part 1 (of 4) of Kormak's Saga.

Today's Texts:

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald. Translated by W.G. Collingwood and J. Stefansson. Viking Club Translation Series, no. 1., Wm Holmes, Ltd., 1902. Google Books.

Kormáks saga. Icelandic Saga Database, edited by Sveinbjorn Thordarson, 2007. https://www.sagadb.org/kormaks_saga.is.

Egil's Saga. Translated by W.C. Green, 1893. Internet Sacred Texts Archive.

Egil's Saga. Translated by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, Penguin, 1976.

Egil's Saga. Translated by Bernard Skudder, The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection, Penguin, 2001, pp. 3-184.

Chapters

00:00:00 Enclosure Academy Course Promo

00:00:49 Introduction

00:02:31 About sagas

00:06:31 Poets' sagas