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SagaTranslatorEditionChaptersCharactersEdgesGold
Njáls saga (Brennu-Njáls saga)Sir George Webbe Dasent (1861)Project Gutenberg eBook #17919 (release 2006-03-04, updated 2016-10-18)158193382annotated
Laxdæla sagaMuriel A. C. Press (1899)Project Gutenberg eBook #17803 (release 2006-02-20)78198227
Grettis saga Ásmundarsonarnot stated in the eBook; text corresponds to G. A. Hight's 1914 Everyman translation (attribution UNVERIFIED in-file) (1914)Project Gutenberg eBook #347 (release 2008-07-05)93230213
Egils saga SkallagrímssonarW. C. Green (1893)Icelandic Saga Database (sagadb.org) HTML transcription of Green 189392220165

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Njáls saga (Brennu-Njáls saga)

Translator: Sir George Webbe Dasent
Edition: Project Gutenberg eBook #17919 (release 2006-03-04, updated 2016-10-18)
Copyright: Public domain (translation 1861; Project Gutenberg License applies to the eBook packaging)
Original language: nonen
Source

Dasent's chapter numbering (158) differs slightly from the 159-chapter Íslenzk fornrit numbering. Footnotes section removed at segmentation.

Laxdæla saga

Translator: Muriel A. C. Press
Edition: Project Gutenberg eBook #17803 (release 2006-02-20)
Copyright: Public domain (translation 1899)
Original language: nonen
Source

Press anglicises names differently from Dasent (e.g. 'Hoskuld' vs 'Hauskuld'); this matters for cross-saga entity resolution.

Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar

Translator: not stated in the eBook; text corresponds to G. A. Hight's 1914 Everyman translation (attribution UNVERIFIED in-file)
Edition: Project Gutenberg eBook #347 (release 2008-07-05)
Copyright: Public domain in the US (pre-1929 publication)
Original language: nonen
Source

Chapter headings carry titles on the same line.

Egils saga Skallagrímssonar

Translator: W. C. Green
Edition: Icelandic Saga Database (sagadb.org) HTML transcription of Green 1893
Copyright: Public domain (translation 1893); sagadb.org transcription
Original language: nonen
Source

HTML with <h2 id=N>Chapter N - Title</h2> headings and <p> paragraphs.