Bókastaðir

An Old Norse Library

The Story of Burnt Njal

Translated by George W. DaSent, 1861

This is George W. DaSent’s translation of 1861, in the public domain and taken from the Icelandic Saga Database. Its English is old, and it does not follow the Old Norse on this site sentence by sentence. A modernized version will come later.

125,819 words · 158 chapters · Read the Old Norse

Chapters

• 1–5
• 6–10
• 11–15
• 16–20
• 21–25
• 26–30
• 31–35
• 36–40
• 41–45
• 46–50
• 51–55
• 56–60
• 61–65
• 66–70
• 71–75
• 76–80
• 81–85
• 86–90
• 91–95
• 96–100
• 101–105
• 106–110
• 111–115
• 116–120
• 121–125
• 126–130
• 131–135
• 136–140
• 141–145
• 146–150
• 151–155
• 156–158

Source

• Project Gutenberg — via the Icelandic Saga Database. Public domain.