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"' Heritable interests and rights of families in Iceland were involved in what was going on in the mother-countries, and to return and tell these stories as they had heard them at the courts was the highest honor that the skalds cov- eted. They also exercised a great moral influence as counselors and personal friends of the chiefs.^ We will now present some quotations from the Eddie songs and from the sagas, illustrative of the moral con- ceptions of the Norse people. In the following quotation...s from the Elder Edda (the Younger Edda being only a mythological commentary of the Elder), as well as in the previous, we have mainly made use of the metri- cal rendering into English by B. Thorpe, as we find, upon comparison with the original sources, that this sympathetic work reflects more nearly the Norse poetic spirit than any other translation into Enghsh. Corpus Poeticum Boreale, by Vigfusson and Powell, is a more modern effort sys- tematizing old Norse poetry chronologically and somewhat topically; but the work, says Saussaye, should be used with circumspection, as it is, from a philological point of view, far from trustworthy.
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