Kormak's Saga (Part 1)

We inaugurate our first "Saga Summer" a bit late this year, but starting with an early poet's saga, a tale of love and betrayal, duels and magic. This is Part 1 (of 4) of Kormak's Saga.

Today's Texts:
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald. Translated by W.G. Collingwood and J. Stefansson. Viking Club Translation Series, no. 1., Wm Holmes, Ltd., 1902. Google Books.
Kormáks saga. Icelandic Saga Database, edited by Sveinbjorn Thordarson, 2007. sagadb.org/kormaks_saga.is.
Egil's Saga. Translated by W.C. Green, 1893. Internet Sacred Texts Archive.
Egil's Saga. Translated by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, Penguin, 1976.
Egil's Saga. Translated by Bernard Skudder, The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection, Penguin, 2001, pp. 3-184.

Chapters
00:00:00 Enclosure Academy Course Promo
00:00:49 Introduction
00:02:31 About sagas
00:06:31 Poets' sagas
00:12:15 Skaldic verse
00:22:07 Translating skaldic verse: Egil's Saga, verse 4
00:31:15 Immigration
00:33:42 Whales and sausages
00:35:28 Notes on the translation
00:38:18 Text: Kormak's Saga, ch. 1-6, translated by Collingwood & Stefánsson
00:59:22 Commentary
01:09:50 Skald: A Game of Viking Verse-Making
01:12:12 Riddle
01:15:37 Outro