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id: 20853
author: Holbrook, Florence
title: Northland Heroes
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sentence: 1334
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Then Frithiof kissed the youthful monarch on the brow in farewell, and, turning from the assembly, he silently and slowly passed from view. Frithiof at his Father's Grave From the home of King Ring Frithiof fared to seek his father's grave in his own loved land. Great men and proud you seem, and methinks you plan great deeds.


id: 32443
author: Dahn, Felix
title: Saga of Halfred the Sigskald: A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century
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words: 26108
sentence: 1349
flesch: 86
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summary:
  And then began that catastrophe which was to overwhelm Halfred and his house, and the men of Tiunderland, and all the guests, and many other men and women, altogether strange and far away, who had never even seen or heard of Halfred and Harthild, in blood and fire. And thus musing he fell asleep; for it was many many nights since he had slept.


id: 45107
author: Hewlett, Maurice
title: Frey and His Wife
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words: 32010
sentence: 2157
flesch: 95
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summary:
  Said Halward, You talk over-big, Wigfus, and Wigfus said, I come of a strong stock. I know that you do, said Halward; I know that the Icelanders are good men. While he was looking at Frey Sigrid came in.


id: 14019
title: The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes
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words: 45005
sentence: 2545
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Said Karl, That horn is long of breath. CLXIX See Roland there on his charger swooned, Olivier smitten with his death wound.


id: 1152
title: The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda
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words: 58214
sentence: 1866
flesch: 77
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summary:
  They had ten sons and one daughter, and their eldest son was hight Sigmund, and their daughter Signy; and these two were twins, and in all wise the foremost and the fairest of the children of Volsung the king, and mighty, as all his seed was; even as has been long told from ancient days, and in tales of long ago, with the greatest fame of all men, how that the Volsungs have been great men and high-minded and far above the most of men both in cunning and in prowess and all things high and mighty. And now she holds the funeral feast for her brother by the aid and counsel of the king, and makes ready all things therefor or in the best of wise, and bade thither many great men.


id: 8518
author: Tegnér, Esaias
title: Fritiofs Saga
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words: 48704
sentence: 5141
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Där flyga lockar bruna, där stråla ögon blå, och som en Dock, när han bjöds av värden till sängs, då log han och sade: 150 Vinden är god, och mitt skepp, som du sett, är ej att förakta; hundrade mil, det hoppas jag visst, jag seglar i afton.


id: 347
author: Unknown
title: The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga
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words: 71358
sentence: 4164
flesch: 89
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summary:
  This annoyed Thorfinn, but he did not like to refuse Grettir his hospitality; he was a man who kept open house, enjoyed life and liked to see other men happy. Thorfinn cast a severe glance at him and asked what he had found so pressing to do that he could not keep proper hours like other men.


id: 22093
author: Snorri Sturluson
title: The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
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words: 70908
sentence: 2413
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Fin was married with Bergliot, the daughter of Halfdan the son of Sigurd Sow, & Halfdan was the brother of King Olaf and King Harald. On his mother's side was he the nephew of King Olaf and King Harald, able was he withal & early come to manhood.


id: 17803
title: Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic
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sentence: 3554
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Then said Thorstein, It is not the only thing open to view, Lambi, to cut so quickly away from this journey; for in this matter great men are concerned, men of much worth, moreover, who deem that they have long had to put up with an unfair lot in life. In the latter days of Ketill arose the power of King Harald the Fairhaired, in such a way that no folkland king or other great men could thrive in the land unless he alone ruled what title should be theirs.


id: 33471
author: Chadwick, Nora K. (Nora Kershaw)
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words: 68269
sentence: 4606
flesch: 86
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title:
  Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes

summary:
  _H_ comes to an end with Gestumblindi's second riddle, while _R_ breaks off just before the close of ch. 12. Ásmundarson's version has been followed closely in the translation given below, but one or two interesting passages omitted by _H_ have been translated separately (see Appendix on pp.


id: 12747
title: The Story of Grettir the Strong
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sentence: 3098
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Said Grettir, Who knows to whom most gain will come of it in the end? Hast thou heart to leave me then, Fair-limbed gladdener of great men? The handmaid shrieked out, but in such wise did they part that she laid no blame on Grettir when all was over.


id: 17919
title: The story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga
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words: 142821
sentence: 6357
flesch: 89
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summary:
  In the abodes of chiefs and great men, this building had great dimensions, and was then called a skáli, or hall. I will do that, says Njal: never slay more than one man in the same stock, and never break the peace which good men and true make between thee and others, and least of all in such a matter as this.


