From the Sagas of the Norse Kings. With an appendix: The Norse voyages to Vinland about 1000 A.D.

Iceland 1003 (Icelandic sagas). Snorri Sturluson, 1179 – 1241. From the Sagas of the Norse Kings. With an appendix: The Norse voyages to Vinland about 1000 A.D. Illustrated by Halfdan Egedius, Christian Krohg, Gerhard Munthe, Erik Werenskiold, Wilhelm Wetlesen. [Translated into English by Erling Monsen with the assistance of A.H. Smith. Introduction by Gudmund Sandvik]. Oslo: Dreyer Forlag, 1967, 390 pages, illus, maps on front and back lining papers. Very good in very good dust jacket. (Previous owner has neatly pencilled in the dates of the deaths of some of the artists). This is the first edition, not the reprint by the same publisher of 1973. $27.50

Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose Edda, which is a major source for what is today known as Norse mythology, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's saga. He was assassinated in 1241 by men claiming to be agents of the King of Norway.