Krohg, Christian
(no.)
b. 1849
d. 1929
Nationality: Norwegian
Krohg was a prominent Norwegian artist who was one of the illustrators
for Gustav Storm's editions of Kongesagaer in
1899 and 1900.
Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri
(non.)
Hakon the
Good
(en.)
A king in Ynglinga Saga, the fourth saga in
Heimskringla, who was
fostered by King Athelstan of England and raised as a Christian. He
tried to Christianize Norway when he became king but was unsucessful and
his subjects gave him a pagan burial when he died.
Sigurðrjarl
(non.)
Earl
Sigurd
Hákonarson
(en.)
an earl in Hakon den godes saga, the third saga in Heimskringla, who was an advisor to
Hákon the Good.
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.
ausa vatni (non.)
sprinkling of water (en.)
The entry for ausa vatni in Cleasby Vigfusson states that it "is a
standing phrase for a sort of baptism used in the last centuries, at
least, of the heathen age. The child when born was sprinkled with water
and named, yet without the intervention of a priest; this rite is
mentioned as early as in the Hávamál, one of the very oldest
mythological didactic poems on record, where it is attributed even to
Odin."
Kongesagaer (1899 ed.)
The first edition of Gustaf Storm's Norwegian translation of Heimskringla.
Heimskringla
History of the Kings of Norway
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).
Hákonar saga goða
Hakon den godes saga
Saga of Hakon the Good
This is the fourth saga in Heimskringla.
