The World's Best Histories - Norway

In 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. Överland’s “Norges Historie.” Among many other works used as sources or consulted are: J. E. Sars’s “Udsigt over den Norske Historie”; Jacob Aall’s “Erindringer”; F. Winkel Horn’s “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.