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VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH
TEXT SERIES
GENERAL EDITORS
Anthony Faulkes and Richard Perkins
VOLUME XI
THEODORICUS MONACHUS
AN ACCOUNT OF
THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE NORWEGIAN KINGS
THEODORICUS MONACHUS
HISTORIA DE ANTIQUITATE
REGUM NORWAGIENSIUM
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY
OF THE NORWEGIAN KINGS
TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY
DAVID AND IAN M C DOUGALL
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
PETER FOOTE
VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
1998
© Viking Society for Northern Research 1998
Reprinted 2006 by Short Run Press Limited, Exeter
with corrections to the Notes and additional Bibliography
ISBN-10: 0-903521-40-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-903521-40-6
Cover illustration: Munkeliv Abbey (Bergen)
Head of King Eysteinn (c. 1125)
© Bergen Museum
Photograph by Ann-Mari Olsen
CONTENTS
PREFACE
vi
INTRODUCTION
vii
1. The author
ix
2. The date of the Historia
xi
3. The Historia and other sources
xiii
4. Þórir munkr: man, monk and historian
xxiii
5. The text
xxx
THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE NORWEGIAN KINGS
1
NOTES
55
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS
116
MAPS OF NORWAY AND DENMARK
136
INDEX OF NAMES
139
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