Skalds learned songs from hearing them sung. At last people began to write more easily. We must write them down to save them from being forgotten. After that many men in Iceland spent their winters in writing books. Many of these old vellum books have been saved for hundreds of years, and are now in museums in Norway.
Some leaves are lost, some are torn, all are yellow and crumpled.
But they are precious. They tell us all that we know about that olden time. Some of those old stories I have told in this book. Initial text entry and proof-reading of this chapter were the work of volunteer Ingrid Olsson .