Discoveries in Australia, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Discoveries in Australia, Vol. 1

The design of the writer of the follovung pages is to put before the public, in a cheap and compendious form, those parts of Professor Rafu's work, which he considered were likely to prove most interesting to British readers, the greater part of whom, fiom the expense and language of the original publication, must necessarily be debarred from its perusal. The translations of the Sagas or N ai'ratives are made substantially from the Danish version, of the correctness of which, coming from the pen of the learned Editor, there could be no doubt; but, in many cases, where the style of this version appeared to the translator to depart from the quaint and Simple phraseology of the original, the Icelandic text has been specially referred to, and an effort has been made throughout, to give to the English translation, the homely and unpretendmg character of the Icelandic Saga. In all cases where it was thought possible that doubts might arise, or where it was considered important to impress some particular fact or statement upon the mind of the reader, the original Icelandic word or expresswn is given' and free use has been made of the 00p10us and lu01d notes and commentaries of the learned Editor, to explain or illustrate the various etymological, historical, and geographical points which call for observation As an appropriate introduction to the whole, 18 prefixed a sketch of the rise, eminence, and decline of Icelandic historical literature, from the Danish of Dr. P E. Muller, Bishop of Zeeland.

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