grayt.ead.0001-mss.0064 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-mss.0064#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.fsio The Fatal Sisters Now the storm begins to lower, 1768 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 27-31 Lonsdale (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.0064 poems.fsio Ode (from the <emph render="italic">Norse</emph>-tongue) in the <emph render="italic">Orcades</emph> of Thormodus Torfaeus. Hafniae. 1697. Fol: & also in Bartholinus [1?] February 1768 3 autograph fair copy 324 mm x 200 mm Add. 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, 84 Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414 Nelson (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 <emph render="italic">Norse</emph>-tongue) in the <emph render="italic">Orcades</emph> 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.