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Excerpt from The Edda Songs and Sagas of Iceland: A Lecture Delivered at St. George's Hall, Langham Place, February, 1876 With their language these Norwegian settlers brought over the sea to their new island home their mythology, their national ideas, their superstitions, and their folk-lore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.