Fiction · 1891
Eric Brighteyes
Eric Brighteyes, first published in 1891, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter I — How Asmund the Priest Found Groa the Witch
- Chapter II — How Eric Told His Love to Gudruda in the Snow on Coldback
- Chapter III — How Asmund Bade Eric to His Yule-Feast
- Chapter IV — How Eric Came Down Golden Falls
- Chapter V — How Eric Won the Sword Whitefire
- Chapter VI — How Asmund the Priest Was Betrothed to Unna
- Chapter VII — How Eric Went Up Mosfell Against Skallagrim the Baresark
- Chapter VIII — How Ospakar Blacktooth Found Eric Brighteyes and Skallagrim Lambstail on Horse-Head Heights
- Chapter IX — How Swanhild Dealt with Gudruda
- Chapter X — How Asmund Spoke with Swanhild
- Chapter XI — How Swanhild Bid Farewell to Eric
- Chapter XII — How Eric Was Outlawed and Sailed a-Viking
- Chapter XIII — How Hall the Mate Cut the Grapnel Chain
- Chapter XIV — How Eric Dreamed a Dream
- Chapter XV — How Eric Dwelt in London Town
- Chapter XVI — How Swanhild Walked the Seas
- Chapter XVII — How Asmund the Priest Wedded Unna, Thorod’s Daughter
- Chapter XVIII — How Earl Atli Found Eric and Skallagrim on the Southern Rocks of Straumey Isle
- Chapter XIX — How Koll the Half-Witted Brought Tidings from Iceland
- Chapter XX — How Eric Was Named Anew
- Chapter XXI — How Hall of Lithdale Took Tidings to Iceland
- Chapter XXII — How Eric Came Home Again
- Chapter XXIII — How Eric Was a Guest at the Wedding-Feast of Gudruda the Fair
- Chapter XXIV — How the Feast Went
- Chapter XXV — How the Feast Ended
- Chapter XXVI — How Eric Ventured Down to Middalhof and What He Found
- Chapter XXVII — How Gudruda Went Up to Mosfell
- Chapter XXVIII — How Swanhild Won Tidings of Eric
- Chapter XXIX — How Went the Bridal Night
- Chapter XXX — How the Dawn Came
- Chapter XXXI — How Eric Sent Away His Men from Mosfell
- Chapter XXXII — How Eric and Skallagrim Grew Fey
- Chapter XXXIII — How Eric and Skallagrim Fought Their Last Great Fight
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1856–1925 · Victorian
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was born in Bradenham, Norfolk, and went out to South Africa at nineteen on the staff of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, witnessing the British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and later farming ostriches there before returning to England to study law. King Solomon's Mines (1885), reportedly written on a wager with his brother that he could not write a novel as good as Treasure Island, was an immediate sensation and established the "lost world" adventure novel as a genre; She (1887) and Allan Quatermain (1887) followed, and Haggard returned to the character of Allan Quatermain across some eighteen further books over the next four decades. Away from fiction he wrote extensively on agriculture and rural welfare, served on royal commissions on land settlement and coastal erosion, and was knighted in 1912 for this public service. He died in London at sixty-eight.
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