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HEIMSKRINGLA
HEIMSKRINGLA is the largest collection of Old Norse and Nordic source texts on the internet – currently some 9100 titles.
HEIMSKRINGLA primarily consists of Eddic texts, sagas, and skaldic poetry, as well as background material and sources on Sami, Finnish, and Greenlandic culture.
HEIMSKRINGLA is based on the belief that these texts – as part of our shared cultural heritage – should be freely accessible to everyone.
Henrik Rytter’s Beowulf og striden um Finnsborg is the first complete Norwegian translation of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. Rytter rendered the work into Nynorsk and sought to preserve both its alliterative verse form and its archaic tone. At the same time, he strove to convey the rhythm and epic power of the original, adhering closely to its structure and imagery. The translation is marked by a consciously Nordic and historical language intended to bring the poem closer to the shared Nordic cultural heritage. Rytter’s version is an important contribution to the transmission of medieval heroic poetry in modern Norwegian.
This is Heimskringla’s fifth version of the poem Beowulf.
Emil Birkeli’sFedrekult (Ancestor Worship) takes the reader on a fascinating journey into beliefs about the dead in Norwegian folk tradition and pre-Christian religion. What happened to a person after death? Could the dead return to help — or threaten — the living? Drawing on burial customs, funeral feasts, beliefs about the soul, and ancient Christmas traditions, Birkeli traces possible remnants of an ancestor cult from the Stone and Bronze Ages to the folklore of household spirits and ghostly Christmas processions. A book about the living—and the enduring presence of the dead.
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.
About the HEIMSKRINGLA-project and the people behind it
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