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King Aun on his High Seat
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This rectangular vignette depicts King Aun sitting on his high seat in his old age after he has sacrificed nine of his sons to Óðinn in order to prolong his life. This scene takes place in Chapter 25 of Ynglingesoga, the first saga in Kongesagaer, in Gustav Storm's Norwegian translation of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. The illustration is based on Snorri's use of lines from the late 9th-century skaldic poem Ynglingatal, which Samuel Laing rendered in his 1844 English translation of Heimskringla as:

In Upsal's town the cruel king
Slaughtered his sons at Odin's shrine --
Slaughtered his sons with cruel knife,
To get from Odin length of life.
He lived until he had to turn
His toothless mouth to the deer's horn;
And he who shed his children's blood
Sucked through the ox's horn his food.
At length fell Death has tracked him down,
Slowly, but sure, in Upsal's town.

( mcllibrary.org/Heimskringla/ )

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This illustration is on page 24 of the first edition published in 1899.

Munthe, Gerhard. King Aun on his High Seat. From: Sturluson, Snorri. Kongesagaer. Translated by Gustav Storm, Kristiania: J. M. Stenersen, 1899. 24. MyNDIR: My Norse Digital Image Repository. Ed. P. A. Baer. 2023. Edition 2.5.1. Victoria, B. C.: Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria. 2023.

Taken on: December 12, 2010

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Snorri Sturluson

Laing, Samuel

Heimskringla

History of the Kings of Norway

Munthe, Gerhard

Ynglinga saga

Saga of the Ynglings

Ynglingatal

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Sets appears in: • Kongesagaer / Heimskringla (1899 & 1900 eds.)

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