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Kormak's Saga (Part 1)
Episode 124
Saturday, 15 August, 2026
We inaugurate our first "Saga Summer" a bit late this year, but starting with an early poet's saga, a tale of love and betrayal, duels and magic. This is Part 1 (of 4) of Kormak's Saga. Today's Texts: The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald. Translated by W.G. Collingwood and J. Stefansson. Viking Club Translation Series, no. 1., Wm Holmes, Ltd., 1902. Google Books. Kormáks saga. Icelandic Saga Database, edited by Sveinbjorn Thordarson, 2007. https://www.sagadb.org/kormaks_saga.is. Egil's Saga. Translated by W.C. Green, 1893. Internet Sacred Texts Archive. Egil's Saga. Translated by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, Penguin, 1976. Egil's Saga. Translated by Bernard Skudder, The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection, Penguin, 2001, pp. 3-184. Chapters 00:00:00 Enclosure Academy Course Promo 00:00:49 Introduction 00:02:31 About sagas 00:06:31 Poets' sagas 00:12:15 Skaldic verse 00:22:07 Translating skaldic verse: Egil's Saga, verse 4 00:31:15 Immigration 00:33:42 Whales and sausages 00:35:28 Notes on the translation 00:38:18 Text: Kormak's Saga, ch. 1-6, translated by Collingwood & Stefánsson 00:59:22 Commentary 01:09:50 Skald: A Game of Viking Verse-Making 01:12:12 Riddle 01:15:37 Outro
