1844 THE HEIMSKRINGLA OR CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY LAING VOL I-III SNORRO

Description: I have here for sale a book entitled THE HEIMSKRINGLA; or a Chronicle of the Kings of Norway. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, with preliminary dissertation by Samuel Laing, Vols I-III. It is a first translated edition published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London in 1844. Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland. While authorship of Heimskringla is nowhere attributed, some scholars assume it is written by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) c. 1230. The title Heimskringla was first used in the 17th century, derived from the first two words of one of the manuscripts (kringla heimsins, "the circle of the world"). Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about Swedish and Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177. Bound in half brown leather on purple hardboards. Gilt bands to the head and tail of the spine with gilt lettering. Boards in fine condition. Pink floral endpapers with a bookplate to the front one for John Gretton of Stapleford. Pages clean and firm. Gilt top edges. Vol I - 485 pages, Vol II - 399 pages, Vol III - 393 pages. 22 x 15 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday. pages

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