after, but it has an additional attraction in the graphic pictures
which it presents of the various perils by land and sea encountered by
the hardy Norsemen.

The translator's valuable notes are given _in extenso_, and for easier
reference are transferred from the end of the work and printed on the
pages to which they belong.

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PREFACE.

(1782.)


The editor, from some particular advantages he enjoyed, was encouraged
to collect such inedited fragments as might elucidate antient history.
He, lately, published "Anecdotes of Olave the Black, king of Man;" and
now lays before the learned the Norwegian account of Haco's celebrated
expedition against Scotland.

It was the editor's intention to have given a succinct detail of the
descents made by the northern nations upon the British isles, but an
increase of materials induced him to reserve that subject for a future
work. At present, therefore, he thinks it sufficient to premise that
the Æbudæ were, long, the cause of much dispute between various
kingdoms. They seemed naturally connected with Scotland; but the