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Norse Sagas · Frederick York, 1905
Here beginneth Hunger-waker. 1. THIS LITTLE BOOK I call HUNGER-WAKER, inasmuch as it appears to many uninformed men, wise though they be, that have gone through it, that they would wish to know much more thoroughly the rise and the life of those notable men of whom little is told forth in this scroll, though I have cast together into my book well-nigh all that I have fast in my memory. 2. I have put together this little book in order that there might not altogether fall out of my memory what I heard that man of knowledge, Gizor Hallsson, say on the matter thereof, and what certain other notable men have set forth in narrative. This also in the second place hath led me to write this, that it might draw young men on to make themselves acquainted with our speech [letters] and to read what is written in the northern tongue, Law or Histories or Biographies. 3. I have rather set this matter …
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