Historia_Norwegie
Historia Norwegiæ
15-16th century work on the history of Norway
Historia Norwegiæ is a short history of Norway written in Latin by an anonymous monk.[1] The only extant manuscript is in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie, and is now kept in the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh.[2] The manuscript contains several other texts; the Historia itself is in folios 1r-12r. Recent dating efforts place it somewhere c. 1500-1510A.[3]
The original text was written several centuries earlier than the manuscript itself; the text refers to both a volcanic eruption and an earthquake in 1211 as contemporary events,[4] and Orkney is stated to be under Norwegian rule.