Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða

Glossed Old Norse Audio

The Saga of Hrafnkel Freysgoði

The perfect first saga: short, well told, and gripping. Hrafnkel swears an oath that he will kill anyone who rides his favorite horse, and is forced to act on it.

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

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

9,138 words · 20 chapters · Old Norse · 100% glossed · Audio available

This text is Valdimar Ásmundarson’s 1893 edition. Jakob Jakobsen’s 1902 edition is also available here, not yet glossed. Read Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða (Jakob Jakobsen) →

Also in English, in John Coles’s 1882 translation. Read in English →

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Source

Valdimar Ásmundarson (ed.), Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða, Reykjavík: Sigurður Kristjánsson, 1893 (Íslendinga sögur 8) — Scanned by Google from the copy at Yale University. Transcribed from the page scans. Public domain.
Icelandic Saga Database — Old Norse (Heimskringla.no) — Icelandic Saga Database, sagadb.org. 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).