grayt.ead.0001-mss.0064Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0064#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.fsioThe Fatal SistersNow the storm begins to lower,1768Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 27-31Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 210-220
Written at London not later than
the beginning of
May 1761,
based largely on a Latin translation
of the original poem preserved in the late 13th-century
Njáls Saga, ch. 157. This untitled Old
Norse poem is a prophetic account of the Battle of Clontarf, fought on
Good Friday 1014.
First published in Poems (1768).
mss.0064poems.fsioOde (from the Norse-tongue) in
the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus.
Hafniae. 1697. Fol: & also in Bartholinus[1?] February 17683autograph fair copy324 mm x 200 mmAdd. MS 38511, ff. 4v-5v Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 50, 84Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare
Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=136436>
Autograph fair copy, numbered 7. and here entitled
Ode (from
the Norse-tongue) in the Orcades of Thormodus
Torfaeus. Hafniae. 1697. Fol: & also in Bartholinus,
followed by the first line of the original poem "Vitt er orpit
fyrir valfalli &c:", including "Advertisement",
"Preface", and explanatory notes, used for printer's copy for
Poems (1768), in MS instructions
to Dodsley, sent in a letter, [1?] February
1768.