Konungs skuggsjá (Old Norse for "King's mirror"; Latin: Speculum regale, modern Norwegian: Kongsspegelen (Nynorsk) or Kongespeilet (Bokmål)) is a Norwegian...

hafgufa is mentioned in the mid-13th century Norwegian tract called the Konungs skuggsjá ("King's Mirror"). Later recensions of Örvar-Odds saga feature hafgufa...

Oath Brothers), the story of Olaf Tryggvason in the Heimskringla, the Konungs skuggsjá, and Adam of Bremen. Individual messages can also be found in the Icelandic...

dealing with royal power in medieval Norway, the Heimskringla and the Konungs skuggsjá ("King's Mirror"), make explicit the link between a king or leader...

described as a counterpart to the hideous mermaid margýgr in the Konungs skuggsjá ("King's mirror", c. 1250). He is said to generally match her anthropomorphic...

Seas: whales; the kraken", The King's Mirror: (Speculum Regalae - Konungs Skuggsjá), Library of Scandinavian literature 15, translated by Larson, Laurence...

may come out at his belly...". The 1250 King's Mirror, also known as Konungs skuggsjá or Speculum Regale mentions the atgeirr: "Blýsteyptir hersporar ok...

translator. His notable works included his translation from Old Norse of Konungs skuggsjá (Harvard UP, 1917). Laurence Larson was born at Bergen in Hordaland...

far-away mythological creatures. Toward the end of the 12th century, Konungs skuggsjá, an Old Norse philosophical didactic work, featured several descriptions...

well seem a hard thing to most men to cross over it." The late Norse Konungs skuggsjá, on the other hand, explains Earth's shape as a sphere: If you take...