Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World
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Snorri Sturleson
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Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) ca. 1230. The name Heimskringla was first used in the 17th century, derived from the first two words of one of the manuscripts (kringla heimsins - the circle of the world).
Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177. The exact sources of his work are disputed, but included earlier kings' sagas, such as Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna and the twelfth century Norwegian synoptic histories and oral traditions, notably many skaldic poems. Snorri had himself visited Norway and Sweden. For events of the mid-12th century, Snorri explicitly names the now lost work Hryggjarstykki as his source. The composition of the sagas is Snorri's.
This solo is Volume 3-5 of The Saga Library by the same translators and is all three volumes of the Heimskringla (which are volumes 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Saga Library. Volume 6 is notes, index, appendices etc, and is not planned to be recorded). ( Wikipedia and Ærik Bjørnsson) (34 hr 23 min)
Chapters
The Story of King Harald Greycloak and of Earl Hakon son of Sigurd - Chapter I-…
37:06
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The Story of Sigurd the Jerusalem-farer, Eystein, and Olaf, Part 1 - Chapter I-X
16:32
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The Story of Sigurd the Jerusalem-farer, Eystein, and Olaf, Part 2 - Chapter XI…
23:29
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The Story of Sigurd the Jerusalem-farer, Eystein, and Olaf, Part 3 - Chapter XX…
40:59
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The Story of Sigurd the Jerusalem-farer, Eystein, and Olaf, Part 4 - Chapter XX…
27:34
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The Story of Ingi, Son of Harald, and his Bretheren, Part 2 - Chapter XI-XXI
23:58
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The Story of Ingi, Son of Harald, and his Bretheren, Part 3 - Chapter XXII-XXXII
32:13
Read by Jim Locke
Bewertungen
Noah
(3 Sterne)
I really wanted to listen to this book. The first reader was great but it was hard to follow and keep up with the narrative with the second reader.
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prusc
(3 Sterne)
The other reviewers are right that the main reader can be difficult to listen to but still, he did read out 34 hours of this text so for that I'm grateful.
bummer
Michael Loud
(1,5 Sterne)
The guy reading it has a poor drone of a voice. too bad It started so well