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ICELANDIC SAGAS AND OTHER HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SETTLEMENTS AND DESCENTS OF THE NORTHMEN OF THE BRITISH ISLES: VOLUME 4, THE SAGA OF HACON, AND A FRAGMENT OF THE SAGA OF MAGNUS, WITH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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| By: |
Sir George Webbe Dasent (Trans) |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108052495 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108052498 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
15 November, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Description: |
This four-volume set (1887-94) includes sagas of Orkney and of King Hakon Hakonarson of Norway, in Old Norse and English translation. |
| Synopsis: |
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 Flateyjarbok; and Hakonar saga Hakonarsonar, the life of the king of Norway from 1217 to 1263 and the principal source for Norwegian history over this period, in which Hakon's reign put an end to a long civil war. It was written soon after his death by the Icelandic chieftain and historian Sturla Pordarson at the instigation of the king's son. Volume 4 contains Dasent's translation, The Saga of Hacon, the fragment of the saga of Hakon's son Magnus, and other appended texts. |
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black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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Returnable |