Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 145
cordedsagas are relegated to myth. If we would be-lieve some of the northern writers, what appearsto be difference in kind of embellishment wasin reality the sign that separated history fromfable.* Of the interpreters of this olden lore,Torfaeus has been long looked upon as a charac-teristic… … RUIN AT KATORTOK.* 1 This tendency of the Scandinavian writers is recognized among themselves. Horn (Andersons transla-tion, 324) ascribes it to an unbridled fancy and want of critical method rather than to any wilful perversionof historical truth. This tendency owed its origin to an intense…
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