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(ORKNEYINGA SAGA.) Jónsson, Jon, translator and editor. Orkneyinga Saga; sive, Historia Orcadensium a prima Orcadum per Norvegos occupatione ad exitum seculi duodecimi [etc.]. Icelandic text with Latin translation on facing pages. Engraved frontispiece. xiii, [1], 557 [i. e., 559], [48] pages. 4to, 218x184 mm, 19th-century crude cloth, spine ends chipped, white ink shelf number, joints cracked, cords intact; scattered marginal foxing, occasional browning, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Copenhagen: Sander & Schröder for P. F. Suhm, 1780
first edition of a 13th-century legendary narrative of the Norwegian conquest and rule of the Orkney Islands from the late 9th century onward. Potthast, page 882; Sarton II, 1112-13.
