Description: The death of King
Óláfr Haraldsson at the
Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030. He was
canonised one year after his death by Bishop Grimkell at
Nidaros. This illustration is from Chapter 113 in Olav den heillges Saga, the
eighth saga in Kongesagaer, in Gustav
Storm's Norwegian translation
of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.
Source: Kongesagaer
Folio or Page: 413
Medium: pen and ink drawing printed by means of
zincography
Date: 1899
Dimensions (mm): 148 x 105
Provenance:
This copy of Kongesagaer contains the signature of
Halldor C.
Espe and the date 1900 on the second page along with the note
"Ac 134" in the upper left hand corner. This is not a deluxe
edition,it has a plain black cover with gilt lettering on the spine
and a red and black title page but does not have any decorative page
borders. Page #21 is misnumbered as #22. The pages of this copy
appear to be of a more durable quality paper than those of the copy
in the Urbana-Champaign Library (Q. 839.6 SN5HDAS1899) which are now
very fragile.
P.A. Baer purchased this copy of Kongesagaer in
Oslo in 2008.
Rights:
Illustrations from the 1899 edition of Kongesagaer are in the Public Domain.
Bibliography:
Editions
Sturluson,
Snorri. The
Heimskringla: Or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway.
Translated by
Samuel
Laing,
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and
Longmans, 1844.
―.
Kongesagaer.
Translated by
Gustav
Storm,
Kristiania: J. M.
Stenersen, 1899.
―. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.
Translated by
Lee M.
Hollander,
Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1964.
Secondary Sources
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
According to Heimskringla, King Olafr
Haraldsson died at the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030.
Historical Persons, i.e. from Heimskringla, Saxo, sagas etc.
Óláfr
Haraldsson (non.)
Olaf
Haraldsson (en.)
The Norwegian king whose saga makes up one third of Heimskringla. He became a saint one
year after he died in 1030. According to Heimskringla, he died at the Battle of Stiklestad.
Source Materials:
Heimskringla (is.)
History of the Kings of Norway (en.)
This account of the history of the kings of Norway and is generally
believed to have been written by Snorri Sturluson in Iceland in 1230. It
begins with the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, who were the
subject matter of the skaldic poem Ynglingtal, and ends with the reign
of the Norwegian king, Magnus Erlingson (died 1184).
Kongesagaer (1899 ed.) (no.)
The first edition of Gustaf Storm's Norwegian translation of Heimskringla. Of the two hundred and
twenty illustrations for the 1899 edition Werenskiold drew fifty-seven,
Krohg forty- seven, Wetlesen forty-three, Egedius thirty-seven, Munthe
twenty-seven, and Peterssen eight.
Óláfs saga helga (is.)
Olav den heillges Saga (no.)
Saint Óláfs Saga (en.)
This is the eighth saga in Heimskringla.
Source Persons
Egedius,
Halfdan (no.)
b. 5th May 1877
d. 2nd February 1899
Nationality: Norwegian
Egedius was one of the main illustrator's for Gustav Storm's editions
of Kongesagaer in 1899 and 1900.
Snorri
Sturluson (is.)
b. 1179
d. 1241
Nationality: Icelandic
Snorri was an Icelandic statesman, scholar, and author who is credited
with writing Heimskringla, The
Prose Edda, and possibly Egil's
Saga.
