Bókastaðir

An Old Norse Library

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 and English, with word-by-word glosses, sentence translations, and audio.

Bandamanna saga í heild sinni á fornnorrænu, með upplestri. Orðskýringar og þýðingar eru á ensku.

11,309 words · 12 chapters · Old Norse · 100% glossed · Audio available

Also in English, in William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon’s 1891 translation (a modernized version is coming soon). Read in English →

Chapters

• 1–5
• 6–10
• 11–12

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.

Glosses are generated by AI and may contain errors.

Some of the grammatical analyses in the glosses come from Menota (CC BY-SA 4.0), so the glosses on this text are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Old Norse * voice uses a neural voice from the Language and Voice Lab at Reykjavík University, trained on the Talrómur corpus (CC BY 4.0).