Heimskringla : History of the Kings of Norway

"[Snorri Sturluson] speaks--as almost no other historian ever has spoken--with the authority of a man whose masterful skills would have made him one of the formidable, foremost in any of the events he records. So he saturates even remotely past happenings with a gripping first-hand quality. . . Hollander' translation is very good, fresh on every page . . . Wherever you open the book, the life grips you and you read on . . ."--Ted Hughes, New York Review of Books

Snorri Sturluson was, without compare, the greatest historian of the Middle Ages The late Lee M. Hollander, was a noted authority in the field of Old Norse literature