Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Tales of a Wayside Inn — Part First…
(1863)
“ And then the blue-eyed Norseman told: A Saga of the days of old. "There is," said he, "a wondrous book Of Legends in the old Norse tongue, Of the dead kings of Norroway,-- Legends that once were told or sung In many a smoky fireside nook Of Iceland, in the ancient day, By wandering Saga-man or Scald ”
