Johan Fredrik Peringskiöld (September 13, 1689 – March 2, 1725) 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

Johan Peringskiöld was born in Strängnäs and died in Stockholm .His father was Lars Fredrik Peringer, a senior master at the gymnasium and his mother Anna Maria Mulich. He began his studies at Uppsala University in 1677 and he was an ardent student of the national antiquities...

 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

Adam of Bremen was a German medieval chronicler. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum .-Background:Little is known of his life other than hints from his own chronicles...

's description of Sweden (1718) and Jordanes

Jordanes

Jordanes, also written Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat, who turned his hand to history later in life....

' work Getica (1719), and he published Sögubrot af nokkurum fornkonungum í Dana- ok Svíaveldi

Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum

Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum is a fragmentary Icelandic text dealing with some legendary Swedish and Danish kings...

(1719) in both Old Norse and translated form. Moreover, he translated Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis

Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis

Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis is a late legendary saga without an apparent historic basis. It is about two children of a jarl, and one of them is Hjálmþér whose evil stepmother commands him to work as a thrall until he has performed an impossible task....

(1720), Fragmentum runicopapisticum (1721) and Ásmundar saga kappabana

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...

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