Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, in Lee M. Hollander's standard English translation for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, published by the University of Texas Press, is a scholarly translation of a thirteenth century Old Norse compilation of the sagas of the Norwegian kings, including the Ynglinga Saga this atlas draws on for the mythic origin of the Yngling dynasty. Its strength is that it is a rigorously prepared translation of the primary saga text itself, cited by scholars of Old Norse literature for decades. Its limit is the ordinary one for any medieval saga collection written centuries after the events and figures it recounts, blending historical memory with mythic and legendary material, so a claim resting on it is best read as what the saga tradition itself records rather than as independently verified history.
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Snorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century compilation of Norse royal history, its Ynglinga Saga section euhemerizing Freyr as a historical Swedish king; read here in Lee Hollander's standard modern scholarly translation from the University of Texas Press, the same class of university-press critical scholarly translation this corpus already keeps at tier one for its other primary texts, such as the Codex Chimalpopoca from the University of Arizona Press, so it moves here from tier two to match. Written some two centuries after the Christianization of Scandinavia it describes the end of, drawing on older skaldic poetry and oral tradition of uneven and debated reliability. Use for the saga's own narrative content, not as proof the events it describes literally occurred. NotesSnorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century compilation of Norse royal history, its Ynglinga Saga section euhemerizing Freyr as a historical Swedish king; read here in Lee Hollander's standard modern scholarly translation. Written some two centuries after the Christianization of Scandinavia it describes the end of, drawing on older skaldic poetry and oral tradition of uneven and debated reliability. Use for the saga's own narrative content, not as proof the events it describes literally occurred. 1 Citation
AuthorSnorri Sturluson, translated by Lee M. Hollander 1 PublisherUniversity of Texas Press, for the American-Scandinavian Foundation 1 Publication Year URLhttps://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292730618/ 1 Source TypePrimary text in translation 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Norse directly: "of a thirteenth century Old Norse compilation of the sagas of the Norwegian kings, including the Ynglinga Saga this atlas draws on for the mythic origin of the Yngling dynasty."
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- Sources, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds.
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