From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga


By the late Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.




_With a Prefatory Note, and the Introduction, Abridged, from the
Original Edition of 1861_


New York E. P. Dutton & Co.
London Grant Richards
1900

THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS LIMITED


_The design of the cover made by the late James Drummond, R.S.A.,
combines the chief weapons mentioned in_ The Story of Burnt Njal:
_Gunnar's bill, Skarphedinn's axe, and Kari's sword, bound together by
one of the great silver rings found in a Viking's hoard in Orkney._




PREFATORY NOTE TO THE ONE-VOLUME EDITION.