THE KING’S MIRROR

(SPECULUM REGALE—KONUNGS SKUGGSJÁ)

TRANSLATED FROM THE OLD NORSE

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY

LAURENCE MARCELLUS LARSON

TWAYNE PUBLISHERS, INC., NEW YORK

&

THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION

The Library of Scandinavian Literature

Erik J. Friis, General Editor

Volume 15

The King’s Mirror

Copyright © 1917 by The American-Scandinavian Foundation

Library of Congress catalog card number: 72-1542

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO MY FATHER AND TO THE

MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

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