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Download or read book The Stories of the Kings of Norway Vol 2 written by Snorri Sturluson and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Vol. 2: Called the Round World (Heimskringla) Olaf, the son of Harald of Grenland, was brought up with his stepfather, Sigurd Sow, and his mother, Asta. Rani the Wide-faring was with Asta, and he gave fostering to King Olaf Haraldson. Olaf was early a well-thewed man, goodly to look at, of middle height, and wise and deft of speech he was at an early age. Sigurd Sow was a great husbandman, and kept his folk hard at work; and himself fared often to look after acres and meadows, or live stock, or to the smithing, or wheresoever his men were busy at other things. Chapter II. Of Olaf And King Sigurd Sow. On a time it befell that King Sigurd would ride away from his house, and no man was home at the stead; so he bade Olaf, his stepson, to saddle him a horse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Heimskringla Or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway written by Snorri Sturluson and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now when Harald came to Constantinople he presented himself to the empress, and went into her pay; and immediately, in autumn, went on board the galleys manned with troops which went out to the Greek sea. Harald had his own men along with him. Now Harald had been but a short time in the army before all the Varings flocked to him--by Snorri Sturluson.

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Download or read book The Stories of the Kings of Norway written by Snorri Sturluson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes some of the most famous Viking sagas, this volume features the stories of Harald Hairfair, Halfdan the Black and King Olaf Tryogvison.

Download or read book The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round of the World Vol 4 written by Snorri Sturluson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round of the World, Vol. 4: Heimskringla At last, ten years after the publication of the third volume of the Heimskringla, and nine after the death of the originator of the Saga Library, the indexes to Snorri's work see the day. No one can regret the extent of this delay more keenly than I do myself, especially as I do not pretend to be personally free from all blame in the matter. In the main, however, it has been due to causes over which it was not in my power to exercise any control. The Saga Library was an idea conceived by William Morris, suggested to and taken up by the late Mr. Quaritch. The work on it was divided between Morris and myself in the following manner: Having read together the sagas contained in the first three volumes, Morris wrote out the translation and I collated his MS. with the original. For the last two volumes of the Heimskringla the process was reversed, I doing the translation, he the collation; the style, too, he emended throughout in accordance with his own ideal. Morris wrote pp. v-xii15 of the preface to vol. i; the rest of it was drawn up by me, as was also the preface to the second volume and submitted to Morris' revision. Indexes, notes, genealogical tables I took in hand, also the drawing of the maps which Morris had printed in his own way. As to the style of Morris little need be said except this that it is a strange misunderstanding to describe all terms in his translations which are not familiar to the reading public as 'pseudo-Middle-English.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round World Vol 1 written by William Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round World, Vol. 1: Heimskringla He set off his lore of years by many other matters, both the lives of kings in Norway and Denmark and in England also; yea, and by great tidings withal, that had befallen here in the land. And I deem his lore altogether most noteworthy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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