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HEIMSKRINGLA is an online collection of Old Norse source material, primarily Eddas, Icelandic sagas, scaldic poetry, and some background material. HEIMSKRINGLA consists of some 5600 titles in the Old Norse language or translated into the modern Scandinavian languages. HEIMSKRINGLA builds on the assumption that these texts – being part of our cultural heritage – should be made available for everybody. HEIMSKRINGLA is subject to the laws of copyright. Consequently we are restricted when it comes to more recent publications. HEIMSKRINGLA is run as an idealistic project. Therefore we always need volunteers. On this link you can read how to become part of the project.
Recent texts: Brødrene Zenos reiser (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Gretters vers til tjenestepigen (Danish; Jesper Lauridsen) Skallagrims vers om arbejdet i smedjen (Danish; Jesper Lauridsen) Grønlands og dets nabolandes geographiske forhold (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) 17 middelaldertekster om Grønland (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Hafgerðingadrápa (Danish; Jesper Lauridsen) Gretters vers om drabet på bersærken Snækoll (Danish; Jesper Lauridsen) Af þrimr kumpánum (Old Norse; Konráð Gíslason) Flere tekster om middelalderens geografiske optegnelser om Grønland: Uddrag af Björn Einarsöns Reisebeskrivelse (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Uddrag af Islands Lovbog Grágás (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Ordericus Vitalis om Grönland (Latin and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Saxo Grammaticus om Grönland (Latin and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Adam af Bremen om Grönland (Latin and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Brudstykke af historisk-geographiske Optegnelser (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Udtog af Kónungs Skuggsjó (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Grønlands Beskrivelse ved Ivar Baardsön (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Slægtsforskning i Landnáma (Danish; Jens Ulff-Møller) Konungs Skuggsjá om Grønland (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Bidrag til Fortolkning af danske Stednavne (Danish; Oluf A. Nielsen) Who was Oluf August Nielsen? (Danish biography) Af Jórsalaferð (Old Norse; C. R. Unger) Spor etter det norrøne Grønland - Master's Thesis in Archaeology (Norwegian; Frode Th. Omdahl) Turen går til vikingetiden (book review; Jesper Lauridsen) Paradisus (Old Norse; Konráð Gíslason) Et vers om Bøggver (Danish; Jesper Lauridsen) Middelalderens geographiske optegnelser (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Gamle Kursforskrifter til Grönland (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Uddrag af en gammel kortfattet Jordbeskrivelse (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Uddrag af en anden udførligere Geographie fra Middelalderen (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Gripla (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Beskrivelse over Grönland, af et ældgammelt Haandskrift (Old Norse and Danish; Rafn and Magnússon) Previous New texts	Brand new book: Stednavne og førkristne kultsteder By Carsten Lyngdrup Madsen This book raises the question whether place-names can give us valid insight in pre-Christian religion in general and pre-Christian cult places in particular. The author’s answer is an unconditional yes. Place-names can shed light over religion and cult, and place-names can point out places, where people gathered to worship their gods – cult places. 372 pages, richly illustrated. Price: Dkr. 266,-. Buy here or Read more here.
	Special features: Source Index: - Did you find your text? Forfatterindex: Searching by author, translator and/or publisher. Index of skalds: Who were they? E-Library: Links to some 400 books - all available online. Gallery: Visit Heimskringla's gallery of historical sites etc. Archive of maps: Maps of important saga places. Biographical Index: Briefly on manuscript collectors, scholars, and authors who have had an influence on the conservation, publication and interpretation of Old Norse source material.
	Ongoing projects: De gamle Eddadigte published and interpreted by Finnur Jónsson Norges gamle Love indtil 1387 by R. Keyser og P. A. Munch Den ældre Edda in Danish by Finnur Magnusson Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning by Finnur Jónsson Norges Indskrifter med de ældre Runer by Sophus Bugge Danske sagn I-VI by Evald Tang Kristensen
About the HEIMSKRINGLA-project and the people behind it About the project Norrøne Tekster og Kvad. Mere end Snorre. Article about Heimskringla. Short presentation of the people behind the project. Arbejdskontoret, if you would like to become part of the project. Editorial principles.	New, more readable format of HEIMSKRINGLA     Do you use your mobile or tablet when visiting Heimskringla?     Then click on Mobilvisning at the bottom of the page.     It will give you an entirely new reading experiance.     Compatible with iPad and Android.
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