Eric Brighteyes: A Saga of Iceland
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 19 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, Vilhelm Bille and Vilhelm Arnesen. Iceland in the saga age: Eric Brighteyes, the strongest man in the south, loves Gudruda the Fair, whose father will not have him; Swanhild, her half-sister and a witch, will have him or no one. Haggard wrote this in 1891 after reading the Icelandic sagas in translation and tried to write as they do — flat, fated, unamazed. It is the least Victorian book he produced and the one Icelanders themselves respected. Nineteen plates by Dahl, Gude, and the Norwegian landscape painters of 1832 to 1916 carry the saga's own country of waterfalls, mountain farms, and ships at sunset.
Complete and unabridged, with 19 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, Vilhelm Bille and Vilhelm Arnesen. Iceland in the saga age: Eric Brighteyes, the strongest man in the south, loves Gudruda the Fair, whose father will not have him; Swanhild, her half-sister and a witch, will have him or n...
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
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