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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781139380812 2024-03-03T08:45:45+00:00 Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles Gudbrand Vigfusson 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139380812 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108052467 9781139380812 book 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139380812 2024-02-08T08:46:12Z 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 chieftain and historian Sturla Þórðarson at the instigation of the king's son. Volume 1 contains Vigfusson's edition of Orkneyinga saga and two variants of Magnúss saga, the life of St Magnus of Orkney. Book Iceland Cambridge University Press Norway
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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 chieftain and historian Sturla Þórðarson at the instigation of the king's son. Volume 1 contains Vigfusson's edition of Orkneyinga saga and two variants of Magnúss saga, the life of St Magnus of Orkney.
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Gudbrand Vigfusson
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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
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icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the northmen of the british isles
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Cambridge University Press
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2012
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139380812
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Norway
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Norway
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Iceland
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Iceland
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ISBN 9781108052467 9781139380812
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms
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https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139380812
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