TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction, 1
THE OLD NORSE AND ICELANDIC LITERATURE.
Old Norse Literature.
Iceland peopled from Norway becomes the original home of the Old Norse Literature. Why the Icelanders became preëminently a historical people. The elder and younger Edda and their principal contents. The forms of Old Norse poetry. The Skaldic poetry and its developments from the drapas to the rhymes. The most famous skalds and their drapas. Saga-writings. Icelandic genealogies. Snorre Sturleson's Heimskringla. Mythic heroic sagas. Romances. Legends. Folk-lore. Laws, 13
Modern Icelandic Literature.
Revival of literature in Iceland. Favorable and unfavorable conditions. Influence of the Reformation. Translations of the Bible. Psalmists. Collections of sermons. Participation of the Icelanders in the age of learning in the North. Arngrim Jonsson. The study of antiquities. Linguistic investigations. Aids to the study of manuscripts. Torfæus. Arne Magnusson. Vidalin. Finn Magnusson. Patriotic movement. Jon Sigurdsson. Revival of poetry. Rhymes. Modern poets, 74
