Note 51 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)

The “Lay of the Vikings,” translated into Icelandic verse by the Rev. Olaf Pálsson. It is in the free metre of the old sagas—the same as that which Thorláksson adopted in his translation of “Paradise Lost.” The following is the translation of Delta’s lines:

Þar sem um Hjaltlands

Heimkynni þögul

Norðurhafs öldur

Ólmar freyða,

Stynja þar stormar,

Stúra brimboðar,

Lifandi veru

Líkar sorgröddum.