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ICELANDIC SAGA.Professor Charles Sprague Smith, of New York, will deliver a course of five illustrated lectures upon the Icelandic Saga during November and December. The subjects and dates are as follows...
Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Ari the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity...
Friday, Nov. 27. - The life of a viking and poet, Egil's Saga...
Wednesday, Dec. 2. - Family life in Iceland, viking voyages, blood feuds and disputes at the Althing. Njal's Saga...
Friday, Dec. 4. - How Christianity was brought to Norse lands. The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason...