Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles: Orkneyinga Saga, and Magnus Saga, With Appendices (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Gudbrand Vigfusson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265972205 ISBN 13: 9780265972205

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles: Orkneyinga Saga, and Magnus Saga, With Appendices

I incline to refer its composition to the early part of the thirteenth century, and I suppose it to have been composed in the Orkneys. Beyond the names of certain of the kings mentioned in it, there is not a particle of true tradition in it. It cannot be later, for the complex collection to which it is a kind of preface goes back to the middle of the thirteenth century.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0265972205
• ISBN 13: 9780265972205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 536