Quotes:Olaus Magnus

Zirkoff, Boris

Olaus Magnus or Magni (1490-1558) (Magnus, i.e., Stora, great, being the family name and not a personal epithet). Swedish ecclesiastic and author. Followed his brother, Johannes Magnus, archbishop of Uppsala, to Rome, 1527. Most of his life was spent in the monastery of St. Brigitta in Rome, where he subsisted on a pension assigned him by the Pope. Author of the famous *Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Rome, 1555, a work which long remained the chief authority on Swedish matters. Engl. tr. by J. Streater as A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes and Vandals, and Other Northern Nations, London, 1653.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 538