[Autograph Manuscript] The Decision of Horgeir, a story of the Conversion of Iceland
Author:
Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic (DNB)
Publication details:
No date.
£1,250.00
SKU: 10555
Notebook, 34pp., 8vo (alternate pages used), first page dulled, minor marking, text clear and complete, in the hand of Sabine Baring-Gould, lightly annotated by B.-G. Words added by B.-G. top right of first page, "from | S. Baring-Gould | [Horbury Wakefiled -excised] | Dalton | Thirsk. And to the title: "by the Author of 'Iceland: its scenes & Sagas', 'Post Mediaeval Preachers,' &c". It is divided into three chapters, a B.-G. concludes with his sources, noting that "The above is taken from [several?] independent historians whose accounts tally most closely in all but a few trifling particualrs. Apparently unpublished.