Heimskringla : history of the kings of Norway

by Snorri Sturluson ; translated with introduction and notes by Lee M. Hollander

Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Snorri Sturluson tells us how scions of those descendants, the Swedish kings, colonised and subdued Norway, shire by shire, until King Harald Fairhair united the whole realm. The long line of his successors ruled Norway with varying fortunes, achieving, at one time, a far-flung dominion encompassing a major part of the British Isles and Denmark, besides the homeland.Great missionary kings, especially Olaf Haraldsson (who was later canonised and became the patron saint of Norway), introduced Christianity, and with it southern and western influences. Other rulers weakened the kingdom by their fratricidal struggles or wars with pretenders. Through the whole history, one senses the gradual rise of a national awareness. Snorri Sturluson is, without compare, the greatest historian of the Middle Ages. His work reflects the attitudes of his own troubled times and country, the Iceland of the thirteenth century, torn by bloody feuds.

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書名 Heimskringla : history of the kings of Norway
著作者等 Hollander, Lee Milton
Snorri Sturluson
出版元 Published for the American-Scandinavian Foundation by the University of Texas Press
刊行年月 c1964, 1991
ページ数 xxvi, 854 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0292730616
NCID BA13538319
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言語 英語
原文言語 アイスランド語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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