Nonfiction · 1844
Heimskringla
Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
Snorri Sturluson · translated by Samuel Laing
Heimskringla, first published in 1844, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Note
- Preface of Snorre Sturlason
- Of the Priest Are Frode
- Halfdan the Black Saga: Preliminary Remarks
- Endnotes:
- Harald Harfager’s Saga
- Hakon the Good’s Saga: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd: Preliminary Remarks
- King Olaf Trygvason’s Saga: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Olaf Haraldson. (1): Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Magnus the Good: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Harald Hardrade: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Olaf Kyrre: Preliminary Remarks
- Magnus Barefoot’s Saga: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Magnus the Blind and of Harald Gille: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald: Preliminary Remarks
- Saga of Hakon Herdebreid (Hakon the Broad-Shouldered) (1): Preliminary Remarks
- Magnus Erlingson’s Saga: Preliminary Remarks
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About the author
1179–1241 · Medieval
Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, twice elected lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He wrote the Prose Edda, a handbook of Norse mythology and poetics, and Heimskringla, a history of the kings of Norway told through their sagas. Caught up in the power struggles between Iceland's leading families and the Norwegian crown, he was assassinated at his estate at Reykholt on the order of King Håkon IV.
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