Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen in the British Isles: Volume I. Orkneyinga Saga and Magnus Saga, with appendices. Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson.
by Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson
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Iceland 1001 (Icelandic sagas). Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen in the British Isles: Volume I. Orkneyinga Saga and Magnus Saga, with appendices. Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887, liii, 426p, errata, reproductions. Book lacks front fly, there is scotch tape residue on front and back lining papers and back endpaper, paper browning, few paper chips, else very good copy of this volume from the Rolls Series. The technical apparatus is in English but the text is in Icelandic. Books on the Orkney Islands are difficult to come across in general let alone such an important early source as this. Very scarce. $150.00 Hall closet
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- Focloir (US)
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- Iceland 1001
- Title
- Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen in the British Isles: Volume I. Orkneyinga Saga and Magnus Saga, with appendices. Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson.
- Author
- Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson
- Format/Binding
- Good
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887,
- Pages
- liii, 426
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Norse, Icelandic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Middle Ages; England, English history and literature; sagas; Norse, Icelandic; Scandinavia; Iceland;
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- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...