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THE INVASION OF GREAT BRITAIN BY THE NORTHMEN

THE INVASION OF GREAT BRITAIN BY THE NORTHMEN

PREFACE

I N preparing this volume it has been my aim to omit as few important events as possible without making the book a mere enumeration of names and dates. Above all, I have tried to be accurate. Among the works which I have used as sources, the first one to be mentioned is the great work of Snorre Sturlason: The Heimskringla, or The Sagas of the Norse Kings, and I have used the English translation of the same by Samuel Laing, Esq., revised edition by Rasmus B. Anderson (Scribner & Welford, New York, 1889). I have also found much assistance in O. A. verlands Norges Historie. Among many other works used as sources or consulted, are: J. E. Sarss Udsigt over den Norske Historie; Jacob Aalls Erindringer; F. Winkel Horns History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North, translated by R. B. Anderson (S. C. Griggs & Co, Chicago, 1895). The Constitution of Norway, the most liberal Constitution of Europe, appeared to me to be an appropriate closing chapter in a History of Norway. This interesting document has been translated into English by the Honorable Knute Nelson, United States Senator from Minnesota, to whom I am under obligation for permission to use his translation.

S. S.

Minneapolis, Minn., 1899.

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