grayt.ead.0001-mss.0069Thomas 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.0069#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.0069poems.fsioThe Song of the weird Sisters Translated from
the Norwegian written about 1029.[1761?]3transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton229 mm x 186 mmMS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 228-229r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 55, 84
Transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton, here entitled,
The Song of the weird Sisters Translated from the
Norwegian written about 1029.