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_By the Author of "John Herring," "Mehalah," &c._
=Grettir the Outlaw:= A Story of Iceland. By S. Baring-Gould.
With 10 full-page Illustrations by M. Zeno Diemer and a
Coloured Map. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, _6s_.
A work of special interest, not only because of the high rank which
Mr. Baring-Gould has of late years acquired by his brilliant series
of novels, _Mehalah_, _John Herring_, _Court Royal_, &c., but
because of his earlier won reputation as a historian and explorer
of folk-legends and popular beliefs. In the story of Grettir, both
the art of the novelist and the lore of the archæologist have had
full scope, with the result that we have a narrative of adventure
of the most romantic kind, and at the same time an interesting and
minutely accurate account of the old Icelandic families, their
homes, their mode of life, their superstitions, their songs and
stories, their bear-serk fury, and their heroism by land and sea.
The story is told throughout with a simplicity which will make it
attractive even to the very young, and no boy will be able to
withstand the magic of such scenes as the fight of Grettir with the
twelve bear-serks, the wrestle with Karr the Old in the chamber of
the dead, the combat with the spirit of Glam the thrall, and the
defence of the dying Grettir by his younger brother.
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