Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108052481)

This four-volume set of Icelandic sagas with English translations was prepared between 1887 and 1894 by the celebrated Icelandic scholar Gudbrand Vigfusson (1827-89) and the foremost translator of the day, Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817-96). It includes Orkneyinga saga, a history of the jarls of Orkney from the late ninth century to about 1200, composed in Iceland around 1230 but preserved complete only in the fourteenth-century Flateyjarb k; and H konar saga H konarsonar, the life of the king of Norway from 1217 to 1263 and the principal source for Norwegian history over this period, in which H kon's reign put an end to a long civil war. It was written soon after his death by the Icelandic chieftain and historian Sturla r arson at the instigation of the king's son. Volume 3 contains Dasent's translation, The Orkneyingers' Saga, with appended extracts from relevant texts and the life of St Magnus of Orkney.

Author: George Webbe Dasent
ISBN-10: 1108052487
ISBN-13: 9781108052481
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2012
Pages: 588
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d