Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus is a monumental work by Olaus Magnus on the Nordic countries, printed in Rome 1555.[1] It long remained for the rest of Europe the authority on Swedish matters. Its popularity was increased by the numerous woodcuts of people and their customs, amazing the rest of Europe. It is still today a valuable repertory of much curious information in regard to Scandinavian customs and folklore.
"On the three Main Gods of the Geats." From left to right; Frigg, Thor and Odin."The Alphabet of the Geats", showing the runic alphabet used by the Geats.
It was translated into Dutch (1562), Italian (1565), German (1567), and English (1658). Abridgments appeared also at Antwerp (1558 and 1562), Paris (1561), Basel (1567), Amsterdam (1586), Frankfurt (1618) and Leiden (1652).
^Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Rome, 1555 (available free at Google Books)
^Wawn, Andrew (2000). The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: Brewer. ISBN0-85991-575-1. pp. 17f.
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Compendious History of the Goths, Svvedes, and Vandals, and Other Northern Nations. Printed by J. Streater, and are to be sold by Humphrey Mosely, George Sawbridge, Henry Twiford, Tho. Dring, John Place, and Henry Haringman. 1658.
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