Johan Fredrik Peringskiöld (13 September 1689 – 2 March 1720) was a Swedish translator. Johan was born in Stockholm, studied at Uppsala and was appointed as the successor of his father

Johan Peringskiöld Johan Peringskiöld (6 October 1654 – 24 March 1720) was a Swedish antiquarian. Biography Johan Peringer was born at Strängnäs in Södermanland County, Sweden. His father Lars Fredrik Peringer (1613-1687) was senior master at the gymna ...

in 1712 as "translator antiquitatum" at the archive of antiquities. In 1719, he was appointed secretary and antiquarian, and he succeeded his father in 1720. He interpreted

Adam of Bremen Adam of Bremen (; ; before 1050 – 12 October 1081/1085) was a German medieval chronicler. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. Adam is most famous for his chronicle '' Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum'' ('' ...

's description of Sweden (1718) and

Jordanes Jordanes (; Greek language, Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, claimed to be of Goths, Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life. He wrote two works, one on R ...

' work ''

Getica ''De origine actibusque Getarum'' (''The Origin and Deeds of the Getae''), commonly abbreviated ''Getica'' (), written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the ori ...

'' (1719), and he published '' Sögubrot af nokkurum fornkonungum í Dana- ok Svíaveldi'' (1719) in both Old Norse and translated form. Moreover, he translated '' Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis'' (1720), ''Fragmentum runicopapisticum'' (1721) and ''

Ásmundar saga kappabana ''Ásmundar saga kappabana'' is the saga of Asmund the Champion-Killer, a legendary saga from Iceland, first attested in the manuscript Stockholm, Royal Library, Holm. 7, 4to, from the first half of the fourteenth century.Ciklamini, M., ‘The Comba ...

'' (1722), in addition to publishing his father's translation of '' Ættartolur''.

References

* Hofberg, H; Heurlin, F; Millqvist, V; Rubenson, O. (1909). ''Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon'', tome II
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Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Boktryckeri. * The article

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Nordisk familjebok (, 'Nordic Family Book') is a Swedish language, Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print from between 1876 and 1993, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University. The public domain edit ...

'' (1915). 1689 births 1720 deaths Writers from Stockholm Swedish-language writers {{Sweden-bio-stub

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