1990 The Orkneyinga Saga

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A facsimile of the text of the 1873 edition published by Edmonston and Douglas. 

In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and monochrome vignettes, and ten monochrome plates. Collated complete. 

This historical work was edited with notes and an introduction by Joseph Anderson. The 'Orkneyinga Saga' is a 14th century narrative history, of which this is a translated version, and covers the history of the Orkney and Shetland islands and the Earls of Orkney, starting with the conquest of the Isles of Harald Har-Fagri. The work's accuracy has been questioned by recent scholars, who consider some of the earlier sections to be more fictional that reality.