The life of Laurence, Bishop of Hólar in Iceland (Laurentius saga) translated from the Icelandic

Trans. by O. Elton, ed. by E. Haflidason. London: Rivingtons, 1890. - 180 p.
This short translation had the honour of encouragement from the veteran Norse scholar so lately lost, Gudbrand Vigfdsson. His own heavy work did not prevent him from generously offering to revise these sheets. But though his death interrupted everything, his edition of the text (published in Copenhagen in 1858), and his Dictionary, practically did half the labour of a version; without these aids, indeed, no version pretending to accuracy could well exist. In any piece of work which he did, every one can feel the hand ofjhe master-scholar; like Casaubon, he cut roads into the jungle of learning, and his roads are Roman.
The translation, in spite of this loss, has had the great advantage of aid from Vigfdsson’s partner in Scandinavian research, Mr. York Powell, who has spared no pains to improve a work which he originally suggested.