Author Description

""These stories are very precious. We must write them down to save them from being forgotten." After that many men in Iceland spent their winters in writing books. They wrote on sheepskin; vellum, we call it. Many of these old vellum books have been saved for hundreds of years, and are now in museums in Norway. Some leaves are lost, some are torn, all are yellow and crumpled. But they are precious. They tell us all that we know about that olden time. There are the very words that the men of Iceland wrote so long ago - stories of kings and of battles and of ship-sailing. Some of those old stories I have told in this book. Jennie Hall"--