Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus
Subtitle: Romæ 1555 = Description of the northern peoples : Rome 1555
By: Olaus Magnus, translated by Peter Fisher and Humphrey Higgens, edited by Peter Foote, with annotation derived from the commentary by John Granlund.
Contributors: Fisher, Peter, fl. 1979-; Higgens, Humphrey.; Foote, Peter Godfrey.; Granlund, John, 1901-1982.
Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society -- 2nd ser., no. 182, etc.
Publisher: Hakluyt Society
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Olaus, -- Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, -- 1490-1557 -- Translations into English; Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus; Scandinavia -- Description and travel
Genres: Translations into English.
Other titles: Description of the northern peoples : Rome 1555.
Notes: "No manuscript drafts of any part of the Historia survive. The sole authority for the text is consequently the 1555 edition, whose printing was personally supervised by Olaus Magnus."  This translation, based on "two decent facsimile editions, one published in England in 1971, the other in Denmark in 1972," follows the corrigenda included by Magnus at the end of the original edition, and emends some passages reproduced incorrectly by Magnus from his original written sources. --p. xi, v. 1.

Includes bibliographical references (p. lxxiii-lxxxix)
Table of contents: title: v. 1. [Bk. 1-5]