The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin n.d. [Abstract of Dasent, The Story of Burnt Njal]. CUL-DAR193.93. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN1

NOTE: Sir George Webbe Dasent, The Story of Burnt Njal. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1861.

Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR193 contains notes for Darwin's book Variation under domestication (1865-75).

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"Now Otkell had two horses, dun-coloured, with a black stripe down the back: they were the best studs to ride in all the country round, and so fond of each other, that wherever one went before, the other ran after him"

(Dasent's Translation of the Njal Saga, "Story of Burnt Njal" Vol. I. page 169

This like other Icelandic Sagas was committed to writing in the 12th century (latest possible date 1200): the event recorded in the chapter from which the above extract is taken occurred in 985. A.D. – See Preface XII, & CCII.)

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