Excerpt from The Story of Grettir the StrongValuable as are the classic tales, there is to be drawn from them no such lesson of manliness as the north ern stories teach. If I wished a lad to learn from his reading the quality of steadfast courage, I would put into his hands these two Icelandic sagas, with the Morte d'arthur and even the Niebelungen Lied, rather than the Iliad, the Odyssey, or the zeneid. There is only one book whose tales surpass these north ern stories in teaching the lesson of manly self - dependence, and that book is the Bible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.