Skírnir - 01.09.1988, Síða 65

SKÍRNIR
WALTER SCOTT OG EYRBYGGJA
271
ustrations of Northern Antiquities, útg. H. Weber og R. Jamieson
(Edinborg 1814), bls. 512. Blaðsíðutilvísanir í textanum eiga allar við
um þessa útgáfu.
17. „ . . . the high honours in which the female sex was held in that early
period of society.“
18. „Joined to the various instances in the Eyrbiggia-Saga of a certain re-
gard to the forms of jurisprudence, even amid the wildest of their
feuds, it seems to argue the extraordinary influence ascribed to munic-
ipal law by this singular people, even in the very earliest state of soc-
iety.“
19. Sbr. Jón Jóhannesson, íslendinga saga I, (Reykjavík 1956), bls. 147-
48.
20. „As this was the third attempt to preach Christianity in the island, it
seems probable that the good sense of the Icelanders had already re-
jected in secret the superstitions of paganism, and that the worship of
Thor had declined in the estimation of the people."
21. Batho, „Scott as Mediaevalist", bls. 156.
22. Simpson, „Scott and Old Norse Literature“, bls. 304.
23. Grímur J. Thorkelín, þýð. og útg., Eyrbyggia-Saga [sic] (Kaupmanna-
höfn 1787). Allar kafla- og blaðsíðutilvísanir eiga við um þessa útgáfu.
Kaflaskipting er að mestu sú sama í útgáfu Hins íslenzka fornritafélags
og á enskum útgáfum.
24. „ . . . in crossing the river Enna.“
25. „ . . . the tutelage of Snorro had devolved upon Borko the Fat.“
26. „For, although a priest, he [Snorri] was not in any respect nice in his
choice of means on such occasions."
27. „Borko [...] received him [Eyjólf] joyfully, and commanded his wife
to make him good cheer. While she obeyed his commands with undis-
guised reluctance, Eyjulf [sic] chanced to drop the spoon with which
he was eating; as he stooped to recover it, the vindictive matron, un-
able to suppress her indignation, snatched his sword, and severely
wounded him ere he could recover his erect posture. Borko, incensed
at this attack upon his guest, struck his wife, and was about to repeat
the blow, when Snorro, throwing himself between them, repelled his
attack, and placing his mother by his side, announced haughtily his
intention to protect her. Eyjulf [sic] escaped with difficulty, and after-
wards recovered from Borko a fine for the wound which he had sus-
tained.“
28. Simpson, „Scott and Old Norse Literature", bls. 310.
29. „After the death of Thorolf, Arnkill [sic] engaged in various disputes
whith the pontiff Snorro for the recovery of the woods of Krakaness
[. . .]. Nor was Snorro for a length of time more successful in his var-
ious efforts to remove this powerful rival [...] and practised repeatedly
against Arnkill’s life by various attempts at assassination."