The Death of King Guðröðr Veiðikonung


    Secondary Sources

    Munthe, Gerhard (no.)
    b. 1849
    d. 1929
    Nationality: Norwegian
    Occupation: illustrator
    Residence: Oslo
    Munthe was one of the main illustrator's for Gustav Storm's editions of Kongesagaer in 1899 and 1900.
    Guðröðr veiðikonung (non.)
    Gudrod the Hunter (en.)
    A king in Ynglinga Saga, the first saga in Heimskringla, who was  killed by an assassin sent by Queen Ása, whom he had abducted and  forcibly married.
    Snorri Sturluson (is.)
    b. 1179
    d. 1241
    Nationality: Icelandic
    Laing, Samuel (en.)
    b. 1780
    d. 1868
    Occupation: writer and translator
    Laing translated Heimskringla into English in 1844.
    Ynglingatal A skaldic poem that was composed in the ninth century by the  Norwegian skald Þjóðólfr af Hvini and is best known from Snorri Sturluson's use of it in Ynglinga Saga, the first saga in Heimskringla.