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The history of much of Northern Europe is handed down to us
over the centuries through the Skalds Tales. Before the writing
of stories there was the story teller, the skald. It is said
that their tales are an accurate rendition of the events as
occured because anything else would have been an insult to the
people who were portrayed in the tales. Sometimes the tales
were fashioned into a song. The most widely accepted of the
modern day skalds was poet and historian Snorri Sturluson, who
lived from 1179 to 1241. The English translation by Samuel Laing
(London, 1844) is what we have here. Rather than recreate the wheel
I will simply link to the existing pages with the hopes that the
reader keeps in mind that the people portrayed in the skalds tales
are for the most part my ancestors.
Lyle Charles Iver Myhr Jr. |
