download - Sage's Lore Library

64: INTEODUOTION.
her father Angantyr, whom she calls out of the
grave in order to obtain from him the magic sword
Tyrfing. The poem is much older than the prose
narration ; it is in true heathen spirit, and possesses
great power.
In this class may also be reckoned the Saga of
Ketil Hseng, of Grim the Bearded (Lo5inkinna),
Orvar Odd's Saga, Saga of An the Archer (Bogs-
veigis, Bow-bender), of Thorstein Vikingsson and a
number more, which we need iiot enumerate.
There are also many legends translated or drawn
from the mediaeval Eomantic literature of other
nations. All of the best productions of the Eomantic
spirit in Southern lands was appropriated with restless
activity by the Icelanders, especially the num-
berless sacred legends of the Middle Ages. All
that was sung or written in Germany, France, Eng-
land, Spain, and Belgium, of Charlemagne, of Ar-
thur and the Bound Table, of the Holy Grail,