THE WORLD’S BEST HISTORIES

NORWAY

 

BY

SIGVART SÖRENSEN

EDITOR “MINNEAPOLIS TIDENDE”

 

WITH FRONTISPIECE

 

THE CO-OPERATIVE PUBLICATION SOCIETY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

THE INVASION OF GREAT BRITAIN BY THE NORTHMEN

Norway.

IN preparing this volume it has been my aim to omit asfew important events as possible without making thebook a mere enumeration of names and dates. Aboveall, I have tried to be accurate. Among the works whichI have used as sources, the first one to be mentioned is thegreat work of Snorre Sturlason: “The Heimskringla, orThe Sagas of the Norse Kings,” and I have used the Englishtranslation of the same by Samuel Laing, Esq., revisededition by Rasmus B. Anderson (Scribner & Welford, NewYork, 1889). I have also found much assistance in O. A.Överland’s “Norges Historie.” Among many other worksused as sources or consulted, are: J. E. Sars’s “Udsigt overden Norske Historie”; Jacob Aall’s “Erindringer”; F.Winkel Horn’s “History of the Literature of the ScandinavianNorth,” translated by R. B. Anderson (S. C. Griggs& Co, Chicago, 1895). The Constitution of Norway, themost liberal Constitution of Europe, appeared to me to bean appropriate closing chapter in a History of Norway.This interesting document has been translated into Englishby the Honorable Knute Nelson, United StatesSenator from Minnesota, to whom I am under obligationfor permission to use his translation.

S. S.

Minneapolis, Minn., 1899.