Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles: Volume 4, the Saga of Hacon, and a Fragment of the Saga of Magnus, with Appendices

Name: Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles: Volume 4, the Saga of Hacon, and a Fragment of the Saga of Magnus, with Appendices
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ISBN: 9781108052498

ISBN-10: 1108052495

ISBN-13: 9781108052498

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Authors: George Webbe Dasent

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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 Flateyjarbók; and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, the life of the king of Norway from 1217 to 1263 and the principal source for Norwegian history over this period, in which Hákon's reign put an end to a long civil war. It was written soon after his death by the Icelandic…

Book details

List price: $75.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Introduction


Errata


The saga of Hacon, Hacon's Son


The saga of Magnus, Hacon's son


Additions to the saga of Hacon


Appendix


Index