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STURLASON, Snorri (1178/79-1241). Heims Kringla, eller Snorre Sturlusons Nordlanske Konunga Sagor. Stockholm: L. Wankiwian, 1697 [-1700].
First edition of ‘the stem and source of the legend of the Norsemen’, published at the behest of Charles XI. The Heims Kringla is one of the great collections of sagas, with each of its 16 chapters devoted to a Norwegian king, and was edited by Johan Peringskiold, who introduced a section about the voyage to America made by Leif Ericson. The second work, a history of the Orkneys, was first published in 1697. The Icelandic historian Torfason was appointed royal historian by King Christian V of Denmark in 1682; his Historia rerum norvegicarum, published in four volumes in 1711, was the first substantial history of Norway since the Heimskringla. Snorri's telling of the lives of King Olav Tryggvason and St Olav ‘shows Snorri's magnificent terse prose at its best; it is one of the greatest of historical epics’ (PMM). PMM 168; Sabin 85484.
2 volumes, folio (300 x 191; 320 x 196mm). Printed in Icelandic, Swedish and Latin, engraved device on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces (occasional minor staining or toning). 18th-century speckled calf, spines gilt, vol. 1 with title label lettered in gilt, not on vol. 2 (minor worming to spines, joints of vol.1 tender). Provenance: Sweden, Gothenburg City Library (library stamps on titles).
First edition of ‘the stem and source of the legend of the Norsemen’, published at the behest of Charles XI. The Heims Kringla is one of the great collections of sagas, with each of its 16 chapters devoted to a Norwegian king, and was edited by Johan Peringskiold, who introduced a section about the voyage to America made by Leif Ericson. The second work, a history of the Orkneys, was first published in 1697. The Icelandic historian Torfason was appointed royal historian by King Christian V of Denmark in 1682; his Historia rerum norvegicarum, published in four volumes in 1711, was the first substantial history of Norway since the Heimskringla. Snorri's telling of the lives of King Olav Tryggvason and St Olav ‘shows Snorri's magnificent terse prose at its best; it is one of the greatest of historical epics’ (PMM). PMM 168; Sabin 85484.
2 volumes, folio (300 x 191; 320 x 196mm). Printed in Icelandic, Swedish and Latin, engraved device on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces (occasional minor staining or toning). 18th-century speckled calf, spines gilt, vol. 1 with title label lettered in gilt, not on vol. 2 (minor worming to spines, joints of vol.1 tender). Provenance: Sweden, Gothenburg City Library (library stamps on titles).
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