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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt:...page, in 1860, and was able after long efforts to read nearly all the first column, with the top half and a few words here and there down the second column. His copy is printed in an Appendix. See also Ny Felags-rit, r861. He was able for the first time to fix the place of one of the two quotations in Edda from the lost part of the Song, and to make corrections in the ' previous copies. What is left of the poem can only be half of the whole, as can be seen from the plan, which begins with a Proem and Introdurlion (ll. 1-52) measure of speech in the assembly of men. 1 have brought the noble chiefs praise out of the abode of laughter my breast, so that he learnt it. 'The En-voy. Enjoy, 0 king, the Drink of Beag my song, as Bragi doth the eye, Woden's pledge, and the cauldron of tears. 71. A; or hlatra ham hrdor her ck gram, B, C. 73. Nieti A. biers Bauga emend.; A, B, C omit biers. 74. Emend.; vagna vara (vaara, C) ok (cor, B) vili tara (taara, C), A. B, C. For Vagua read Viuga? telling the tale of the Head-Ransom, followed by an encomium upon Arirbi0rn'.r generarity (ll. 61-86). The next part, to guess from legible words here and there, was on his 'val0ur; the third part (cp. tvenn ok %renn, 1. 60), probably on some other of his noble qualities, with an pilogue (lost), which concludes with an Envoy (ll. 92-95) preserved in Skalda. The title of the Poem has not reached us. Besides the two citations (eight lines) from the lost part, there are nine lines cited from the first half, II. 29-30, 44, 57-60, 67-68. Egil is fond of puns, similes, and conceits: he uses the quaintest fancies in speaking of eye, ear, head, tongue, mouth, and hand. The poet's work is likened to carpentering or a housewright's work;...