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KIRSTEN WOLF OG JULIAN M. D’ARCY SKÍRNIR
jafnt sem íslenskar, getur þó áfram orðið fengur að verki Sir Walt-
ers Scott, An Abstract of the Eyrbiggia-Saga, sem forvitnilegu
framtaki og óvenjulegu, fremur en fræðilegu.
(Lengri gerð greinarinnar birtist á ensku í Studies in Scottish Litera-
ture 22,1987.)
1. John G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott I (Edinborg
og London 1837), bls. 173 og 176.
2. Edgar Johnson, Sir Walter Scott: The Great LJnknown (London 1970),
bls. 90.
3. Robert Paul Lieder,„Scott and Scandinavian Literature“, Smith Col-
lege Studies in Modern Languages, I ii (1920), bls. 8-57.
4. F. W. J. Heuser, Modern Language Notes, XXXVII (1972), bls. 303-
307.
5. Lieder, bls. 44.
6. Edward J. Cowan, „Icelandic Studies in Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Century Scotland“, Studia Islandica XXXI (1972), bls. 121.
7. Cowan, bls. 22.
8. Einar Ol. Sveinsson, Formáli að Eyrhyggja Sögu, (íslenzk fornrit IV,
Reykjavík 1965 útg.), bls. lxiii.
9. Lockhart, III bls. 114; Johnson, bls. 435; Sir Herbert Grierson, Sir
Walter Scott, Bart. (London 1938), bls. 111.
10. John Buchan, The Life of Sir Walter Scott (London 1932).
11. Ef þýðingar James Johnstones á völdum köflum úr fornsögum eru
ekki taldar með (t.d. Anecdotes of Olave the Black [1780] og Haco’s
Expedition to Scotland [1782]).
12. Edith Batho, „Scott as Mediaevalist", í Sir Walter Scott Today, útg.
H.C. Grierson (London 1932), bls. 153.
13. John Simpson, „Scott and Old Norse Literature“, í Scott Bicentenary
Essays, útg. Alan Bell (London og Edinborg 1973), bls. 300.
14. Simpson, „Scott and Old Norse Literature“, bls. 310.
15. John Simpson, „Eyrbyggja Saga and Nineteenth Century Scholar-
ship“, í Proceedings of the First International Saga Conference at the
University of Edinburgh, 1971 (London 1973), bls. 381.
16. „That such a character, partaking more of the jurisconsult or statesman
than of the warrior, should have risen so high in such an early period
argues the preference which the Icelanders already assigned to mental
superiority over the rude attributes of strength and courage, and furn-
ishes another proof of the early civilisation of this extraordinary com-
monwealth." Sir Walter Scott, An Abstract of the Eyrbiggia-Saga, í III-