Olaus Magnus, A Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555. Edited by PETER FOOTE Vol. I. 1996. pp. xciii + 281. 50 woodcuts, 2 maps.ISBN 0 904180 43 3
Olaus Magnus, A Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555.
Edited by
PETER FOOTE
Vol. I. 1996. pp. xciii + 281. 50 woodcuts, 2 maps.ISBN 0 904180 43 3
Introduction, notes on text and first five books of Olaus Magnus’s work. The volume is the only full translation into English and is complete with illustrations. The work is an ethnographic essay combining fact and fantasy about pre-Reformation Sweden and Scandinavia. Continued in Second Series 187 and 188.
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