The Lost Vellum Kringla. Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana, vol. 45. By Jon Gunnar Jørgensen. Translated from the Norwegian by Sian Grønlie. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 2007. Pp. xxviii + 369, 2 plates. SEK 250.

The Lost Vellum Kringla, begun twenty years ago, has its origins in plans conceived at the University of Oslo to produce a new critical edition of Heimskringla, a collection of kings' sagas commonly attributed to Snorri Sturluson. A member of the research team, Jon Gunnar Jørgensen undertook transcription work and text-critical analysis and was subsequently awarded a doctoral stipend to examine Kringla, the chief manuscript. The dissertation, which was completed in 1999, comprised a Norwegian version of the present study as well as an edition of Ynglinga saga based on Kringla. According to Jørgensen, "[n]o major alterations have been made in the translation as compared with the Norwegian original. The structure of the book is the same, the conclusions are unchanged, and there are no substantial additions or omissions" (p. viii).