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Sturluson (Snorri). Heims Kringla eller Snorre Sturlusons Nordlänske Konunga Sagor. Sive historiae regum septentrionalium ... illustravit Johann Peringskiöld, 2 volumes in 1, Stockholm: Literis Wankiwianis, 1697, signatures pi4 b-c4 A-5L4 5M4(-4); pi1 A-3K4 3L2 )(-8)(2 chi1 [superscript 2]A-[superscript 2]2I2, pp. [24] 830; [2] 486 [128], engraved device to title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, variable browning, occasional spotting, a few old oil- and damp-stains, volume 1 with spill-burn to 3I4 obscuring a few letters, small hole in text of 3P1, volume 2 N1-2 repaired in fore margins, chi1 catchword excised, paper-disruption in gutter of index leaf [superscript 2]2H2, front inner hinges reinforced, edges sprinkled blue, 19th-century half roan, loss to spine-ends, joints cracked, folio (29.2 x 19.2 cm) (Qty: 1) PMM 168; Sabin 85484. First edition in the original Old Norse (Icelandic) of the foundational work of Old Norse literature; for earlier editions, all translations, see Heimskringla ... Translated and with an Introduction by Lee M. Hollander (Austin, 1964), pp. xxiv-xxv. The Old Norse is printed in parallel with a Swedish translation, and with a Latin translation at the foot. 'Although the expeditions of the Norsemen to America were not mentioned in the manuscript copies of Sturluson's sagas, Peringskiöld introduces references to these expeditions in vol. I pp. 188-210' (Sabin).