Fagrskinna, a Catalogue of the Kings of Norway

A Translation with Introduction and Notes
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13172-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 767 g

Reihe: The Northern World

This volume includes the first complete translation of a thirteenth-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. An immediate source for the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson, it is a central text in the Old Norse genre of Kings’ sagas. It includes extensive citation of skaldic verses, some of them preserved nowhere else. This translation preserves many of the metrical features of this complex verse form, which are explained in the commentary along with aspects of historical and cultural interest arising from the text. The introduction places the text within the Kings’ saga tradition and examines the particular concerns of its anonymous author. The volume will be of use to historians and those interested in Old Norse literary history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finlay, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowldgements. vii

Introduction. 1

Translation Chapters 1–130. 41

Appendix I. 296
Appendix II. 300

Bibliography Primary sources. 303
Secondary sources. 305
Glossary. 311

Index of places and peoples. 313
Index of persons. 320

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Finlay, D.Phil. (1994), University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of articles on Old Norse literature and translator of The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Men of Hitardale (Hisarlik, 2000).