grayt.ead.0001-mss.0223Thomas 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.0223#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.0223poems.fsioThe Fatal Sisters, an Ode. (From the
Norse-tongue.) in the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus;
Hafniae, 1697, Folio and also in Bartholinus1780[?]8transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on
Whatman paper180 mm x 110 mm
MS Add. 439, Poems section,
75-82
The ArchivesYMAR
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, on 27/02/2007.
Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled
The Fatal Sisters, an Ode
(p. 75) (Ode. VIII. [p. 77]),
followed by the first line of the original poem. The
poem, the preface of which is here entitled Argument and to which Gray's note
on the Valkyriur has been appended, is
part of a section called Poems, which is
separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 129), in a
volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book
carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.