• Oddr Snorrason whose name is also sometimes Anglicized as Odd Snorrason was a 12th-century Icelandic Benedictine monk at the Þingeyraklaustur monastery...
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    Latin versions of "Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar" were written in Iceland, by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson – these are now lost, but are thought to form...
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    Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson 1941:cxxx. Oddr Snorrason 2003:119. Oddr Snorrason 2003:123. Oddr Snorrason 2003:123–124. Oddr Snorrason 2003:126. Nicholson 2003:155...
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  • 10th-century Norwegian king. Latin lives of Óláfr Tryggvason were written by Oddr Snorrason and by Gunnlaugr Leifsson; both are now lost, but are thought to have...
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  • Snorrason may refer to: Ólafur Páll Snorrason (born 1982), Icelandic international footballer who plays club football as a striker Oddr Snorrason, Latin...
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  • Christianity if he emerged victorious from the battle of Svolder. Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar has a more elaborate version of the story where...
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    legendary saga said to have been written in the twelfth century by Oddr Snorrason. The tale tells of a Viking expedition to somewhere in southern Russia...
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    companions. It is believed to have been composed shortly after 1170. Oddr Snorrason made use of it in his Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar, in a section known as...
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    by Snorri Sturluson, the saga Morkinskinna, and a saga composed by Oddr Snorrason on Olaf Tryggvason. According to Heimskringla, in 1033, during the lordship...
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  • narrative greatly with content from the previous biographies of the king by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson as well as less directly related material. The...
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  • seeresses. Although he may not have transmitted a historical event, Oddr Snorrason, who wrote the saga in the 12th c., clearly identified Olga as a völva...
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  • of Olaf Tryggvason (both by Snorri Sturluson in Heimskringla and by Oddr Snorrason), the Saga of Half & His Heroes and the Flateyjarbok. He also appears...
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    Medieval and Classical Literature Library. Retrieved October 26, 2015. Oddr Snorrason; Theodore Murdock Andersson (2003). The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason....
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    Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 June 2018. Whaley, Diana (2012). "Oddr Snorrason". Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Retrieved 11 June...
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    Hervarar saga. An account is found in the Old Norse translation of Oddr Snorrason's lost Latin life of the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason, known as Odds...
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  • influenced highly on Nóregs konungatal, and the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason by Oddr Snorrason. In Icelandic folklore, Sæmundr is a larger-than-life character who...
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    af Nóregskonungasögum, c. 1190. A Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Oddr Snorrason, c. 1190, survives in translation. A Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by...
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    debated as early as the saga writers, or to put it in the words of Oddr Snorrason: We do know that there are some saga tellers who say that Yngvarr was...
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    when Bolli married Kjartan's lover Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir. According to Oddr Snorrason, Olaf had predicted that strife would ensue between Kjartan and Bolli...
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    saga of Olaf from about 1220 by Styrmir Kárason, now mostly lost. Oddr Snorrason's Life of Óláfr Tryggvason, and possibly a Latin life of the same figure...
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    where Ingvar the Far-Travelled is compared to his kinsman Styrbjörn. Oddr Snorrason also mentions him in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar (around 1190), writing...
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    Trans. The Saga of the Jomsvikings. University of Texas Press, 1989. Oddr Snorrason (translated by Theodore M. Andersson) (2003). The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason...
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    as a husband during his time in England in the 990s. According to Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, Gyða was...
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    Þáttr Ísleifs Biskus Gizurarsonar Hungrvaka. Halle a. S.: Max Niemeyer. Oddr Snorrason (1895). "The early life of Thorwald the Far-traveller, son of Kodran"...
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    Two main sagas include Tormod’s death, the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason by Oddr Snorrason, and the collection Heimskringla attributed to Snorri Sturluson. However...
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  • Oddur or Oddr is an Icelandic given name that may refer to Oddur Gottskálksson (c. 1514–1556), Icelandic translator Oddur Olafson (1888–1972), Canadian...
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  • (1934–2021, Yugoslavia/Slovenia, p/f/nf) Ernir Kristján Snorrason (1944–1912, Iceland, nf/f/p) Oddr Snorrason (fl. 12th c., Iceland, nf) C. P. Snow (1905–1980...
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    composition of the níð verse is reported in several sources, including Oddr Snorrason's Latin life of Óláfr Tryggvason, so that detail must have been current...
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  • Hlaðajarla saga (c. 1200) Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar from a version by Oddr Snorrason (c. 1190) a lost version of Óláfs saga helga Knúts saga ríka (after...
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  • Tryggvason had been the "first to bring Christianity to Norway"; the monk Oddr Snorrason attributed the conversion of five countries—Iceland, Greenland, the...
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