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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 (1827â89) and the foremost translator of the day, Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817â96). 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 FlateyjarbÃk; and HÃkonar saga HÃkonarsonar, the life of the king of Norway from 1217 to 1263 and the principal source for Norwegian history over this period, in which HÃkon's reign put an end to a long civil war. It was written soon after his death by the Icelandic chieftain and historian Sturla ÞÃrÃarson at the instigation of the king's son. Volume 4 contains Dasent's translation, The Saga of Hacon, the fragment of the saga of HÃkon's son MagnÃs, and other appended texts.

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Introduction; Errata; The saga of Hacon, Hacon's son; The saga of Magnus, Hacon's son; Additions to the saga of Hacon; Appendix; Index.

Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northern of the British Isles Volume 4 Cambridge Library Collection Rolls

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 11/15/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781108052498, 978-1108052498
      ISBN10: 1108052495

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This four-volume set of Icelandic sagas with English translations was prepared between 1887 and 1894 by the celebrated Icelandic scholar Gudbrand Vigfusson (1827â89) and the foremost translator of the day, Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817â96). 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 FlateyjarbÃk; and HÃkonar saga HÃkonarsonar, the life of the king of Norway from 1217 to 1263 and the principal source for Norwegian history over this period, in which HÃkon's reign put an end to a long civil war. It was written soon after his death by the Icelandic chieftain and historian Sturla ÞÃrÃarson at the instigation of the king's son. Volume 4 contains Dasent's translation, The Saga of Hacon, the fragment of the saga of HÃkon's son MagnÃs, and other appended texts.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Errata; The saga of Hacon, Hacon's son; The saga of Magnus, Hacon's son; Additions to the saga of Hacon; Appendix; Index.

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