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HEIMSKRINGLA HEIMSKRINGLA is an online collection of Old Norse source material, primarily Eddas, Icelandic sagas, scaldic poetry, and some background material. HEIMSKRINGLA consists of some 6800 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.		SHOP
WE PRESENT: digitalized Spydsangen Johannes V. Jensen, 1930 »Rædselsfuldt nu rundt at skue, blodige Skyer skrider paa Himlen, af Mandeblod blusser Luften, saa mægtigt kvæder Krigens Fylgjer.«	WE PRESENT: on print Nordisk religion og Religionsskiftet i Norden by Vilhelm Grønbech This booklet contains two essays written by the Danish scholar Vilhelm Grønbech. In his first paper – Nordisk religion – Grønbech summarizes some of the issues from his The Culture of the Teutons and outlines the role of religious notions in the clan society of the viking age. The second paper – Religionsskiftet i Norden – deals with the unique transition from paganism to Christianity as it went on in Scandinavia and Iceland. Published by HEIMSKRINGLA Reprint and available here.
Recent texts Steins þáttr Skaptasunar (Old Norse; C. R. Unger and Guðbrandur Vigfússon, 1862) Menigmands Følelser ved ulykkelige og ubetimelige Dødsfald (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Hvem var Ludvig Daae? (Norwegian biography) Om Lapparnas Afguderi / Trulldom och Widskepelser (Swedish; Pehr Högström, 1747) De hellige Konger Haakon og Magnus (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Lægekunsten i den nordiske oldtid (Danish; Finnur Jónsson, 1912) Efterretning om Finners og Lappers hedenske Religion (Danish; Sigvard Kildal, 1730) Ásbjarnar þáttr Selsbana (Old Norse; C. R. Unger and Guðbrandur Vigfússon, 1862) Nærøymanuskriptet (Norwegian; Johan Randulf, 1723) Dalvík-fundet - en gravplads fra hedenskabets tid på Island (Danish; Daniel Bruun og Finnur Jónsson, 1910) Afhandling Om de Norske Finners og Lappers Hedenske Religion (Danish Erik Johan Jessen, 1767) Landnáma og Gull-Þóris (Þorskfirðinga) saga (Danish; Björn M. Ólsen, 1910) Kong Harald Hildetand og slaget på Bråsletten (Danish; Jesper Lauridsen, 2021) Eindriða þáttr ok Erlings (Old Norse; C. R. Unger and Guðbrandur Vigfússon, 1862) Den hellige Olaf - Litterære og kunstneriske Mindesmærker om Olaf (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Geistlige Helgener (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Den hellige Olaf - Olafs Historie formet til Lighed med Frelserens (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Hvem var Peter Daniel Bruun? (Danish biography) Samisk religion (Danish; Knud Leem, 1767) Den hellige Olaf - Olafsdyrkelsens Ophør ved Reformationen (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Gripers spådom (Danish; Jesper Lauridsen, 2021) Guðbrands þáttr kulu (Old Norse; C. R. Unger and Guðbrandur Vigfússon, 1862) Olav den hellige i sagn og folketro på Vestlandet (Norwegian; Knut Rage, 2021) Jacobs saga postola (Old Norse; C. R. Unger, 1874) Bergens gamle Bylov - Landeværns-Balken (Norwegian; Gregers Fougner-Lundh, 1829) Bergens gamle Bylov - Landuarnar-bolkr (Old Norse; Gregers Fougner-Lundh, 1829) Den hellige Olaf - Olafsdyrkelsen i den sildigere Middelalder (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Spydsangen (Darraðarljóð) (Danish; Johannes V. Jensen, 1930) Den hellige Olaf - Olafs Dyrkelse udenfor Norge i den tidligere Middelalder (Norwegian; Ludvig Daae, 1879) Eymundar þáttr af Skörum (Old Norse; C. R. Unger and Guðbrandur Vigfússon, 1862) Lappisk Mythologi (Norwegian; Jens Andreas Friis, 1871)       Previous New texts	Special features Source Index: - Did you find your text? Forfatterindex: Searching by author, translator and/or publisher. Index of skalds: Who were they? Language learning: Learn Old Norse 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 Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning by Finnur Jónsson Flateyjarbók by Guðbrandur Vigfússon and C. R. Unger Danske sagn I-VI by Evald Tang Kristensen More ongoing and coming projects
	About the HEIMSKRINGLA-project and the people behind it About the project Norrøne Tekster og Kvad. A short presentation of the people behind the project. Mere end Snorre. Article about Heimskringla. Arbejdskontoret, if you would like to become part of the project. Redaktionelle retningslinjer.
Explore HEIMSKRINGLA The big overview TEKSTOVERSIGTEN .         1. Den ældre Edda         2. Edda-lignende tekster         3. Den yngre Edda (Snorres Edda)         4. Skjaldekvad og rímur      5. Islændingesagaer og fortællinger      6. Samtidssagaer      7. Kongesagaer I (Snorres)      8. Kongesagaer II (Øvrige)      9. Fornaldersagaer      10. Helgensagaer (og religiøs litt.)      11. Riddersagaer      12. Bispesagaer      13. Historiske værker      14. Annaler      15. Lovtekster      16. Øvrige kildetekster
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