Resumen de Historia Norwegie: En analyse av skriftets prolog
The author underlines to begin with the importance of Cicero’s treatise Oratoras a model for the dedication in Historia Norwegie (HN). In his commentary on§7 the present author advocates Fredrik Paasche’s suggestion (1924) for identi-fying the dedicatee as the Franciscan Agnello da Pisa (Agnellus) who was senton a mission to England in 1224, the apogee of which mission was the foundingof a convent and school in Oxford in 1229. If this Agnellus was the dedicatee thedate of HNis presumably the first half of the 1230s. Alternatively, the date couldbe as much as ten years earlier if Agnello and the author met each other duringAgnello’s time in Paris (between 1217 and 1224). The essential point is that Ag-nello da Pisa would have a motive for imposing a task like the one sketched outin §3. As to HNas a historical treatise, the most probable view is that there hasbeen a sequel containing Norway’s history after 1015 that has been lost
