Samuel Laing (travel writer)

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Name Samuel Laing Role Travel writer		Died 1868 Children Samuel Laing
Books A Tour in Sweden in 1838: Co, Notes of a Traveller - on the So, The Autobiography of Samue Similar People Olaf III of Norway, Andreas Bloch, Dyre Vaa, Magnus the Good, Skule Bardsson

Samuel Laing (1780 – 1868) from Papdale in Orkney was a Scottish travel writer. He travelled in Scandinavia and northern Germany and published descriptions of these countries.

Laing's son, also named Samuel Laing, was a railway administrator and important writer on religion and science, and a Liberal Member of Parliament.

Works

Journal of a residence in Norway during the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, 1836

A tour in Sweden in 1838, 1839

In this work, the author strongly criticises the Swedish-Norwegian union, implying that Norway ought to strive for independence. This caused a comment from the Swedish-Norwegian ambassador in London, M. Björnstierna, On the moral state and political union of Sweden and Norway, 1840.

Notes of a traveller, 1842

Covers journeys in Prussia and other countries. The preface contains a response to Björnstierna.

Heimskringla. The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, 3 vols., 1844

English translation of the 13th-century Icelandic work by Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla.

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