title: Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway
author:  Snorri Sturluson 
description: "[Snorri Sturluson] speaksas almost no other historian ever has spokenwith the authority of a man whose masterful skills would have made him one of the formidable, foremost in any of the events he records. So he saturates even remotely past happenings with a gripping first-hand quality...Hollander's translation is very good, fresh on every page ...Wherever you open the book, the life grips you and you read on...." (<i>New York Review of Books</i>)<br /><br />"Among the many contibutions to world literature that ancient Iceland has given us, Heimskringla stands out as one of the truly monumental works. Among medieval European histories in the vernacular it has no equal." (<i>Modern Philology</i>)
zlib_text: FAGRSKINNA
  A CATALOGUE OF THE 
  KINGS OF NORWAY
  
  THE NORTHERN WORLD
  North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD
  Peoples, Economies and Cultures
  EDITORS
  Barbara Crawford (St. Andrews)
  David Kirby (London)
  Jon-Vidar Sigurdsson (Oslo)
  Ingvild Øye (Bergen)
  Przemyslaw Urbanczyk (Warsaw)
  VOLUME 7
  
  FAGRSKINNA
  A CATALOGUE OF THE 
  KINGS OF NORWAY
  A Translation with Introduction and Notes
  BY
  ALISON FINLAY
  BRILL
  LEIDEN • BOSTON
  2004
  
  Illustration on the cover: Head, probably of a bóndi, carved in soapstone, c. 1260-80, from 
  Nidaros cathedral, Trondheim. (Nidaros domkirkes restaureringsarbeider)
  This book is printed on acid-free paper.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Fagrskinna.
  Fagrskinna, a catalogue of the Kings of Norway / a translation with introduction
  and notes by Alison Finlay.
  p. cm. — (Northern world, ISSN 1569-1462 ; v. 7)
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 90-04-13172-8 (alk. paper)
  1. Norway—History—To 1030. 2. Norway—History—1030-1397.  I. Title.  
  