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A New Saga.
Author of "The Deemster," etc., etc.
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay."
New York:
A. L. Burt, Publisher.
To My Son
"Little Sunlocks."
The central date of this story (a Saga in the only senseaccepted among Icelanders) is 1800, when Iceland, in thesame year as Ireland, lost the last visible sign of her ancientindependence as a nation. But, lest the historical incidentsthat stand as a background to simple human passionsshould seem to clash at some points, I hasten to saythat I have not thought it wise to bind myself to the strictchronology of history, Manx or Icelandic, for some yearsbefore and after. I am partly conscious that the Iceland Ihave described is the Iceland of an earlier era; but Icelanderswill not object to my having tri