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    Kings' sagas (Icelandic: konungasögur, Nynorsk: kongesoger, -sogor, Bokmål: kongesagaer) are Old Norse sagas which principally tell of the lives of semi-legendary...
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  • Íslendingasögur (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families. However, sagas' subject...
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    first Swedish king to mint coins. The earlier kings are for the most part only attested in Icelandic sagas, sometimes contradictory mixtures of myths and...
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    The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre...
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    Harald Fairhair (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
    the sagas about Harald Fairhair. Although only preserved in thirteenth-century Kings' sagas, they might have been transmitted orally (as the sagas claim)...
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    Heimskringla (redirect from Snorre Saga)
    pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland. While authorship of Heimskringla...
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    account of the battle. The Icelandic kings' sagas offer a much more extensive treatment, starting with Oddr Snorrason's Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (ca. 1190)....
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    A legendary saga or fornaldarsaga (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before...
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    Norse authors who transcribed the sagas. No contemporary accounts of the rite exist, and the scant references in the sagas are several hundred years after...
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  • The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga is a television documentary miniseries made for Netflix and directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way. It was...
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  • Íslenzk fornrit (category Sagas of Icelanders)
    standard publisher of Old Icelandic texts (such as the Sagas of Icelanders, Kings' sagas and bishops' sagas) with thorough introductions and comprehensive notes...
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    Thereafter, Harald is reported in the sagas to have gone to Jerusalem and fought in battles in the area. Although the sagas place this after his expedition...
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    and elaborate sequence of kings of the Munsö dynasty can be found in 12th and 13th century Icelandic sagas, but the sagas are overwhelmingly considered...
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    Jómsvíkinga saga among the Old Norse sagas. It is sometimes counted among the Kings' sagas based principally upon the association with Danish kings. Both the...
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    between their realms. The main written sources we have on this period, the kings' sagas, were not written until the 12th and 13th centuries. While they were...
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  • Fagrskinna (category Kings' sagas)
    the kings' sagas, written around 1220. It is assumed to be a source for what is known as the Heimskringla, containing histories of Norwegian kings from...
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    Eric Bloodaxe (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
    contrast to the wealth of legendary depictions in the kings' sagas, in which he takes part in the sagas of his father Harald Fairhair and his younger half-brother...
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  • Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum (category Kings' sagas)
    older Skjöldunga saga is believed to have been concise and objective, and is therefore considered part of the genre of Kings' sagas, whereas the younger...
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    Gyða (section In the sagas)
    Old Norse kings' sagas, selected Óláfr Tryggvason as a husband during his time in England in the 990s. According to Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar...
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    to the intended article. Óláfs saga helga or the Saga of St. Olaf, written in several versions, is one of kings' sagas (konunga sǫgur) on the subject...
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    as the name of a ruler of Holmgard (Veliky Novgorod). The Fagrskinna kings' sagas also have Valdamarr, in reference to both Vladimir the Great and Vladimir...
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    Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum (category Kings' sagas)
    (Icelandic for "Summary of the Norwegian Kings' Sagas"), often shortened to Ágrip, is a history of the kings of Norway. Written in Old Norse, it is, along...
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  • sagas; fell in England. Valdar, sometimes assigned to the early 700s. Son-in-law of Ivar Vidfamne and sub-king in Denmark according to the late sagas...
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    Ynglinga saga (modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈiŋliŋka ˈsaːɣa]) is a Kings' saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian...
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  • 325. T. & T. Clark. pp. 275–. Kari Ellen Gade (2009). Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 2. Brepols. p. 637. ISBN 978-2-503-51897-8. National Geophysical Data...
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  • [citation needed] The Bagler Sagas occur during the Civil war era in Norway. The sagas deal with the reigns of the birkebeiner kings Haakon Sverresson, Guttorm...
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    appears prominently in sagas such as Fagrskinna, Egils saga, Njáls saga, Heimskringla, and Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta. The sagas relate that Gunnhild...
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  • Gade 2009, ‘Anonymous, Lausavísa from Knýtlinga saga’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the KingsSagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of...
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  • fleet. The battle is described in the Norse kings' sagas—such as Heimskringla—as well as in Jómsvíkinga saga and Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Those...
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  • The Legendary Saga of St. Olaf or Helgisaga Óláfs konungs Haraldssonar is one of the kings' sagas, a 13th-century biography of the 11th-century Saint...
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