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| ID |
4889 |
| Text |
Historia de antiquitate regum Norwagiensium (1177 - 1188) Theodoricus of Nidaros |
| Quotation |
Opere pretium duxi, Vir Illustrissime, pauca hec de antiquitate regum Norwagiensium breuiter annotare et prout sagaciter perquirere potuimus ab es, penes quos horum memoria precipue uigere creditur, quos nos Islendinga uocamus, qui hec in suis antiquis carminibus percelebrata recolunt. Et quia pene nulla natio est tam rudis et inculta que non aliqua monumenta suorum antecessorum ad posteros transmiserit, dignum putaui hec, pauca licet, maiorum nostrorum memorie posteritatis tradere. |
| Translation |
I have believed it worth the effort, most distinguished of men, to write these few brief notes on the early kings of Norway and as accurately as we have been able to ascertain from those among whom their memory is thought especially to thrive, the folk we call Icelanders, who often mention and recall these events in their age-old poems. And as there is almost no people, however raw and uncultivated, which has not passed on to its descendants some memorials of its predecessors, I considered it suitable to hand on these accounts of our forbears, albeit sparse, for the records of posterity. (Trans. Kraggerud, p. 5) |
| Quotation source |
Prologue (p. 4) |
| Temporal Coverage |
1177 - 1188 |
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