Bandamanna saga

Glossed Old Norse Audio

The Saga of the Confederates

A wealthy but gullible farmer finds himself targeted by a coalition of scheming chieftains eager to seize his fortune. A sharp legal comedy that pokes fun at the powerful.

The full text of the Saga of the Confederates in Old Norse, with word-by-word glosses, sentence translations, and audio.

11,324 words · 12 chapters · Old Norse · 100% glossed · Audio available

This text is Andreas Heusler’s 1913 edition, shown in standard normalized spelling. The Möðruvallabók edition from Menota is also available here. Read Bandamanna saga (Möðruvallabók) →

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Source

Andreas Heusler (ed.), Zwei Isländergeschichten: die Hœnsna-Þóres und die Bandamanna saga, 2nd ed., Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1913 — Scanned by the Internet Archive from the copy at the University of Toronto. Transcribed from the page scans. Public domain.
AM 132 fol, Möðruvallabók — normalized level (me:norm) — Menota (menota.org); ed. Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen. Consulted for chapter divisions, and grammatical analyses. CC BY-SA 4.0.

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