The Jómsvíkinga saga ("Saga of the Jomsvikings") is a medieval Icelandic saga composed by an anonymous author. The saga was composed in Iceland during...

Icelandic sagas from the 12th and 13th centuries. According to the sagas (particularly the Jómsvíkinga saga, King Olaf Tryggvasson’s Saga, and stories...

are divine figures in Norse mythology. They appear together in Jómsvíkinga saga, Njáls saga, and Þorleifs þáttr jarlsskálds. Irpa's name does not appear...

account in Jómsvíkinga saga, it has been proposed that Thyra was born around 806-812 CE and married Gorm around 825 CE. Jómsvíkinga saga further describes...

inheritance, and Earl Sigvaldi does the same for Norway. In Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and Jómsvíkinga saga, accounts are given of the same memorial feast as in Fagrskinna...

According to the Jómsvíkinga saga, Palnatoki founded the brotherhood of Jomsvikings and established its laws. According to the Jómsvíkinga saga, he was the...

(pp. 146-47). Daniel Sävborg, 'Búi the Dragon: Some Intertexts of Jómsvíkinga Saga, Scripta Islandica: Isländska Sällskapets Årsbok, 65 (2014), 101-17...

The battle is described in the Norse kings' sagas—including Heimskringla—as well as in Jómsvíkinga saga and Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Saxo Grammaticus...

Hulda-Hrokkinskinna, c. 1280. Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, c. 1300. Jómsvíkinga saga Orkneyinga saga Færeyinga saga Brjáns saga In Norwegian Storm, Gustav;...

Åkesson was a Norseman of the late 10th century, mentioned in the Jómsvíkinga saga. At the age of 12, Vagn, a warrior, applied for admission to the mercenary...

Thorkell, celebrated in his lifetime by the poets, appears in the Jomsvikinga Saga and on runestones for his exploits. Thorkell's proven shrewd nature...

saga (1r-8r) Bósa saga (8v-21r) Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns (21r-32v) Þorsteins þáttur bæjarmagns (32v-38v) Jómsvíkinga saga (38v-67r) Finnboga saga ramma...

Bride" None attested Hölgi, possibly others Jómsvíkinga saga, Njáls saga, Skáldskaparmál, Færeyinga saga Vár (Old Norse) "Beloved" None attested None...

account of this same event from Jómsvíkinga saga does not reference the magic-worker or the landvættir. Knýtlinga saga, however, retells the account from...

King Sweyn II of Denmark. Eileifr (Eglaf), named in a Supplement to Jómsvíkinga saga as "Eilífr Þorgilsson, bróðir Úlfs", he was one of the leaders of Thorkell...

explanation for this shift of allegiance may be found in a stanza of the Jómsvíkinga saga that mentions two attacks against Jomsborg's mercenaries while they...

Sagas of the Jomsvikings" (PDF). Thomas Nelson and Sons. Ltd. Retrieved October 22, 2015. Slupecki, Leszek P. (2006) Facts and Fancy in Jómsvíkinga saga...

down to us is preserved in the Kings' sagas, the Prose Edda, Egils saga and Jómsvíkinga saga. According to Egils saga, Einarr was a friend of Egill Skalla-Grímsson...

probable settler of Cork Jarl Ottar, earl of Götaland figuring in the Jomsvikinga Saga and in the Heimskringla Óttarr svarti (Óttarr the Black), an 11th-century...

Grœnlendinga saga ("History of the Greenlanders"), giving an account of the Vinland colony with some differences from the account contained in Eiríks saga rauða...

to Viking raids all throughout the country between 852 and 919 (the Jómsvíkinga saga refers to that period). An example of this pattern was with the Viking...

kings" from Flateyjarbók Jómsvíkinga saga from Flateyjarbók Excerpta Catalogo Regum Sveciæ Bäckström, Gösta (1989) En saga om Dan. Göteborg/Vänersborg...

The battle is described in the Norse kings' sagas—such as Heimskringla—as well as in Jómsvíkinga saga and Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Those late...

by the Danish king Harold Bluetooth (910-985/86) in the 960s. The Jomsvikinga Saga mentions Danish Viking Palnatoki as its founder. In medieval records...

Jómsvíkinga saga (c. 1200) Hlaðajarla saga (c. 1200) Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar from a version by Oddr Snorrason (c. 1190) a lost version of Óláfs saga helga...

actually slew Ugaire in 917 was the father of Palnatoke, who in the Jómsvíkinga saga is named Palner Tokesen (Pálnir son of Tóki). He was probably the husband...

Orkney was therefore firmly in the hands of Thorfinn. According to the Jómsvíkinga saga, Gunnhild returned to Denmark around 977 but was killed at the orders...

who appears in the Heimskringla (the Saga of Olaf Tryggvasson) and in the Jomsvikinga Saga. The Jomsvikinga Saga tells that Ottar was the maternal grandfather...

Sweyn Forkbeard succeeded him in his Scanian territories. King Olaf Trygvasson's Saga Part I, 38. Jomsvikinga Saga. Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla....

put into a bog as opposed to burial in dry earth. According to the Jomsvikinga Saga, Harald Bluetooth of Denmark ordered Queen Gunnhild be drowned in a...