Via the Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society, Sept.-Oct., 2021:
News from finebooksmagazine.com website dated June 9, 2021:
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — A highly important collection of C.S. Lewis titles from the library of the author’s lifelong friend Cecil Harwood (1898-1975) is to be offered in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps & Manuscripts sale on 28 July 2021. […]
Leading the collection is C. S. Lewis’s personal annotated copy of Snorri Sturlason’s Heimskringla (Cambridge, 1932), a hugely evocative literary artefact shedding light on his mature engagement with the Norse sagas which had first stimulated his ‘imaginative Renaissance’ as a young schoolboy (estimate: £700-1,000 plus buyer’s premium).
I can’t find any information as to who got the book.
Impressive
Looking for what you posted on Heimskringla, I happily encountered this!
The (final) answer (I don’t know if there were intermediates) is – The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. They have an interesting post about it , written by the then co-Director, David C. Downing, which went up on 16 June 2023 in the ‘Off the Shelf’ blog on their website. Dale Nelson and I have variously recommended your Saga of Erling Skjalgsson for comparison in the comments!
Rereading the Wade post again after I finished your Saga-series got me interested further, and I learned that Dover reprinted this very edition – and got a copy and am now enjoyably reading it (as I just reported there in a new comment).
But this is the first I learned of Lewis passing it on to Harwood! His son, the late Laurence Harwood, has a very enjoyable talk on YouTube, “C.S. Lewis, My Godfather” on the C.S. Lewis Society of California channel.
Thanks for the information. Makes sense, and it’s good to know. And thanks for the boost.
The Dover version is an old translation, but perfectly adequate if you can read the archaic prose (which I’m pretty sure you can). It also has the advantage of including some passages newer translations omit.