Saga-book of the Viking Club, Volume III, Part II, January 1903

The Saga-book is the journal of the The Viking Society for Northern Research.  First edition.  pp131-290, with five large, fold-out illustrations and a few further black and white illustrations in text.  Printed paper wraps.  8vo.  Pape wraps are heavily worn, toned to brittle, chipped all round edges, with clumsy, amateur tape repairs over the spine.  Front hinge cracked, revealing gutter.  The text block is neat. clean, bright and tight barring the very occasional and mild rust spot.  A good reading/reference/working copy, complete with the fold our illustrations often not included in later reprint versions.  

The Viking Society for Northern Research was founded in 1892 as the Orkney. Shetland and Northern Society – commonly known as the Viking Club – to further study of the ancient cultures of Scandinavia.  The Saga-book is its  journal and has, since its first publication, been influential in the fields of Old Norse and Scandinavian British studies.   As well as recording the proceedings of the society in 1902, this edition contains articles on Palnatoki in Wales by A G Moffat; The Round Church of Ophir or The Earls Bu and Kirk in Or-fjara; Biological Evidence of the Relations between the Races of Britain and Scandinavia; Episodes in Icelandic Literature; and more.