Historia Norwegiæ
Historia Norwegiæ is a brief history of Norway written by a Norwegian between 1152 and 1266. Today there is only a fragmentary copy that was created between 1500 and 1510 according to the latest findings. The manuscript belongs to the Earl of Dalhousie and is kept in Brechin Castle in Scotland .
The font contains the following parts.
- A brief description of the geography of Norway and Iceland, and the Faroe and Orkney Islands . This is followed by a treatise on the history of Norway.
- A family tree of the Earl of Orkney.
- A catalog about the kings of Norway.
The text is significant because it includes, among other things, an independent rendering of the Ynglingatal in Latin, which is also used in the Heimskringla . It also contains some extraordinary ethnographic details, such as the description of a shamanic trance among the Sami . Some of the later confirmed historical facts are listed here for the first time.
It is believed that the author used essentially norrøne sources.
After the manuscript was first published by Peter Andreas Munch in 1850 , a revised version was published in 2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lange (1989) p. 142.
literature
- Gudrun Lange: The beginnings of Icelandic-Norwegian historiography. Reykjavík 1989.
- Historia Norvegiae. In: Store nordske leksikon.