Snorre Sturlason sculptured by Gustav Vigeland
The real Heimskringla and the one on Hugen
Hugen has lots of good friends, and one of them called my attention to an other site with the title Heimskringla and which link is this one:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Heimskringla/
You should go there! You will find a prominent library and one of
its offer is:
Heimskringla
or
The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
In Norway we use(d) to learn at school the meaning of the word "heimskringla":
"heims" = world, "kringla" = circle, ring. "heimskringla" should then be the world pictured by a complete coming around it.
And the original Heimskringla told about the world of that time, long long time ago.
When I established a section on Hugen and named it Heimskringla, it was because Cyber is the new Heimskringla. Even if I have been a teacher most of my life, the Net brought the world closer and gave it a warm flesh and a flowing blood, quite different from the faint "book image" I had before. It was amazing to learn about people living today, their thoughts, pleasures and pains, their everyday life, their societies, their cultures - and what we have in common, establishing a "kringla", a community. I got new friends in countries far away, - and I thought: We are today's queens and kings of the world, our world, our Heimskringla - and Hugen will tell a part of its chronicle.
Please, give your comments to this concept!
Bjørke, 2nd March 2002
Enok Kippersund enok@kippersund.no