This book deals with Heimskringla , the most famous of the Old Norse collections of kings' sagas, written by the Icelander Snorri Sturluson in the first half of the thirteenth century, probably around 1230. forefathers are reckoned up, and the death and burial-place of each Den er nedskrevet i det 13. århundrede. unknown is curiously absent from the Norroena Society edition. 1. The name Heimskringla was first used in the 17th century, it comes from the first two words of one of the manuscripts (kringla heimsins - … The probability is that both Snorre and the author of "Fagrskinna" must have transcribed the same original text. into Iceland, and afterwards reckoned from that to his own times. (Reykjavik, 1946-51). The priest Are came, when seven [9] The factual content of the work tends to be deemed more credible where it discusses more recent times, as the distance in time between the events described and the composition of the saga was shorter, allowing traditions to be retained in a largely accurate form, and because in the twelfth century the first contemporary written sources begin to emerge in Norway. Heimskringla consists of several sagas, often thought of as falling into three groups, giving the overall work the character of a triptych. An illustration of text ellipses. the brother of King Halfdan the Black. It is the first section of his Heimskringla. 1921 Raymond Wilson Chambers Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem 1977 Howell D. Chickering Beowulf: a Dual-Language Edition 2002 Benjamin Slade Beowulf: Text with Facing Translation Charm for a Sudden Stitch Deor: Text with Facing Translation Uploaded by Unknown on August 7, 2008. Find great deals for Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson (, Paperback). Ironically I can only read the old Norse text. ; Traducció anglesa de l'Heimskringla. ... while not totally impossible, is highly unlikely. The composition of the sagas is Snorri's.