Samuel Laing (travel writer)
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
- 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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