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Heimskringla; Lives/Saga of the Norse Kings

or, The sagas of the Norse kings from the Icelandic of Snorre Sturlason

by Sturluson Snorri

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Languages: Danish, English, FAO, French, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish

1. The earth's round face, whereon mankind dwells, is much cleft because great gulfs run up into the land from the ocean.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Mythology” and “Sagas”. Retained metadata contains “saga” in the title, “Sagas” in the subtitle, “Mythology” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • Mythology· via Open Library
    • Sagas· via Open Library
    • saga· in title
    • Sagas· in subtitle
    • Mythology· in subject
    • Sagas· in subject

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Editions

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The Heimskringla

1889J. C. NimmsEnglishPublic

Subjects

20 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 75 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1133521W
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Multi source partial
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