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JOHNSTONE, JAMES, translator and editor. Lodbrokar-Quida; or, The Death-Song of Lodbroc. [4], 111 pages, including half-title * Anecdotes of Olave the Black, King of Man, and the Hebridean Princes of the Somerled Family. [8], 48 pages * The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition against Scotland; A.D. MCCLXIII. xv, [1], 143, [17] pages; dedication leaf (*3) cancelled. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, worn, binding broken; some toning or foxing, occasional light soiling and marginal dampstaining. [Copenhagen]: Printed for the Author, 1782; 1780; 1782
first editions of Old Icelandic texts with English translations by a chaplain and independent scholar (d. 1798) affiliated for an extended period with the British diplomatic mission in Copenhagen. The second and third works, translated from the Hákonar saga by Sturla Thórdarson (1214-84), are the first saga texts to appear in English.
