[Rarebooks] FS - Saga-Book of the Viking Club

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*VIKING CLUB (later, the Viking Society for Northern Research), (various 
editors),  */*SAGA-BOOK OF THE VIKING CLUB; */twenty-two original 
individual issues, published between 1903 and 1973, each bound in 
publisher's wraps, as issued; with folding maps, b&w photos and 
illustrations, graphs etc. Each issue contains news of the Club, 
reports, articles, reviews and various notes. Most of the articles are 
original and are not available elsewhere.

The Society was founded in 1892 as the Orkney, Shetland and Northern 
Society, or Viking Club, to promote interest in the Scandinavian North, 
its literature and antiquities. It holds annual meetings, awards prizes 
to academics who distinguish themselves in the field of "Northern" 
studies, and, of course, publishes this journal.

Copies of this journal can occasionally be had, either individually, or 
in very small lots, but it is unusual for such a substantial  
collection, as this, to be offered.

This lot contains the following issues: vol. III (1903 and 1904), parts 
II and III; vol. IV (1905 and 1906), parts I and II; vol. VI (1909 and 
1910), parts I and II; vol. VII (1912), part II; vol. VIII (1913 and 
1914), parts I and II;  vol. XI (1920 and 1925), parts I and II; vol. X 
(1928), part I; vol. XII (1937, 1941, 1942, 1945), parts I, III, IV and 
V; vol. XIII (1946, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1952-53), parts I, III, IV, V; 
vol. XIV (1953-55, 1955-56), parts 1-2, 3; vol. XVIII (1970-71, 1972, 
1973), parts 1-2, 3, 4.

The journals contain a fascinating and diverse range of articles, /viz: 
/"Anthropological Evidence of the Relations between the Races of Britain 
and Scandinavia"; "Irish Episodes in Icelandic Literature"; "The 
Norsemen in Uist Folklore"; "Stone Circles and other Rude Stone 
Monuments of Great Britain"; "On the Place-Name Wetwang"; "Notes on 
Shipbuilding and Nautical terms of Old in the North"; "Homer and 
Beowulf: A Literary Parallel"; "The Vikings in Spain", etc. etc.

Most issues are in good to very good condition, although some of the 
early issues have torn spines and/or light soiling. All are intact and 
complete.

Price: $350.00

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