Bókastaðir

An Old Norse Library

The Saga of Hen-Thorir

"Ertu sárr, bóndi, er þú ert svá rauðr sem blóð?""Eigi em ek sárr, enn eigi er þetta betra."

“Are you wounded, sir? You are as red as blood.”“I am not wounded, but this is no better.”

A miser refuses aid during a famine, turning a dispute over hay into a spiral of lawsuits, vengeance, and one of the most infamous house-burnings in the sagas. A tale of greed, generosity, and the deadly consequences of wounded pride.

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

Hænsna-Þóris saga í heild sinni á fornnorrænu, með upplestri. Orðskýringar og þýðingar eru á ensku.

8,844 words · 20 chapters · Old Norse · 100% glossed · Audio available

Also in English, in William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon’s 1891 translation. Read in English →

Chapters

• 1–5
• 6–10
• 11–15
• 16–20

Resources

• Characters
• Families
• Maps

Source

• Þórleifr Jónsson (ed.), Hœnsa-Þóris saga, Reykjavík: Sigurður Kristjánsson, 1892 (Íslendinga sögur 5) — Scanned by Google from the copy at the University of Minnesota. Transcribed from the page scans. Public domain.
• 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. Consulted for ǫ, ø and œ. Public domain.

Glosses are generated by AI and may contain errors.

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).