• Thumbnail for Ynglinga saga
    Ynglinga saga (modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈiŋliŋka ˈsaːɣa]) is a Kings' saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian...
    22 KB (3,234 words) - 00:05, 9 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hrólfr Kraki
    The Skjöldunga saga was used by Snorri Sturluson as a source when he told the story of Aðils (Eadgils) and Yrsa, in his Ynglinga saga, a part of the Heimskringla...
    39 KB (5,097 words) - 23:03, 28 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Starkad
    killed for having kidnapped Álfhildr, the princess of Alfheim. In the Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson tells what happened a few generations after the deaths...
    27 KB (3,592 words) - 16:53, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yrsa
    Yrsa (section Ynglinga saga)
    Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Olson, 1916, at Project Gutenberg Hrólf Kraki's saga in English translation at Northvegr the Ynglinga saga...
    22 KB (2,975 words) - 01:18, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alaric and Eric
    Eiríkr), according to legend, were two kings of Sweden. According to the Ynglinga saga, Alaric and Eric were sons and heirs of the previous king Agni. They...
    11 KB (1,395 words) - 18:35, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Freyr
    Freyr (section Ynglinga saga)
    Snorri Sturluson starts his epic history of the kings of Norway with Ynglinga saga, a euhemerized account of the Norse gods. Here Odin and the Æsir are...
    48 KB (3,838 words) - 09:40, 18 March 2024
  • Haki (section Ynglinga saga)
    Gesta Danorum, and in 13th-century sources including Ynglinga saga, Nafnaþulur, and the Völsunga saga. If historical, he would have lived in the 5th century...
    6 KB (944 words) - 15:52, 28 July 2022
  • regarding the 8th and 9th centuries. The Ynglinga saga and Sögubrot make clear that his homeland was Scania. The sagas say that the Danish lands were divided...
    12 KB (1,365 words) - 17:22, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eadgils
    presented as composed by Þjóðólfr of Hvinir by Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga. Although its age has been debated, most scholars hold to date from...
    35 KB (4,254 words) - 21:49, 17 March 2024
  • Thor as 'Defender of Ásgard' (Old Norse: verjandi Ásgarðs). In the Ynglinga saga, found in Heimskringla, Snorri describes Asgard as a city in Asia, based...
    16 KB (1,881 words) - 08:22, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ingvar
    event took place in the 8th century. Snorri Sturluson relates in his Ynglinga saga that King Ingvar, Östen's son, was a great warrior who often spent time...
    12 KB (1,351 words) - 14:49, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heimskringla
    Heimskringla (redirect from Snorre Saga)
    he composed the sagas himself. The title Heimskringla comes from the first words of the first saga in the compilation (Ynglinga saga), Kringla heimsins...
    20 KB (2,345 words) - 02:25, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fjölnir
    However, the two giantesses were to be his undoing (see Grottasöngr). The Ynglinga saga tells that Fjölnir was the son of Freyr himself and his wife Gerd, but...
    14 KB (1,086 words) - 09:22, 18 March 2024
  • Olaf thus had a connection with the ship burial is unproven. In the Ynglinga saga portion of the Heimskringla, the king is reported to have died of a...
    7 KB (737 words) - 20:43, 4 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of legendary kings of Sweden
    Odin. The Ynglings are described in the Ynglinga saga as the first royal blood line of the Swedes. The Ynglinga saga contains no references to chronology...
    31 KB (3,800 words) - 20:10, 26 April 2024
  • Ragnarr is the famous Viking king Ragnar Lodbrok. The kings of the saga of the Ynglinga family. Skjöldr ... Frið-Fróði ... Danr hinn mikilláti Fróði hinn...
    15 KB (1,660 words) - 13:26, 8 February 2024
  • adds that the oaths were sworn while drinking the bragarfull toast: In Ynglinga saga the sonarblót is used for divination (til frettar). The association...
    9 KB (884 words) - 14:45, 1 April 2024
  • from King Aleif creating the kingdom of Denmark. Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga relates of King Dygvi of Sweden: Dygvi's mother was Drótt, a daughter...
    8 KB (1,197 words) - 16:40, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Seiðr
    Seiðr (section Sagas)
    would sit on a high platform. As related in the saga: As described by Snorri Sturluson in his Ynglinga saga, seiðr includes both divination and manipulative...
    22 KB (2,402 words) - 11:39, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halga
    Halga (section Ynglinga saga)
    Sturluson's Ynglinga saga, a part of the Heimskringla, he mentions the tradition of Halga, Eadgils and Yrsa, and he based his account on the Skjöldunga saga (he...
    15 KB (2,037 words) - 01:08, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ingjald
    Ynglinga saga, Historia Norvegiæ, Hervarar saga, Upplendinga Konungum, Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar and Íslendingabók. The setting of Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar...
    12 KB (1,231 words) - 12:05, 18 March 2024
  • who was the father of Ivar Vidfamne according to Hervarar saga, the Ynglinga saga, Njal's Saga and Hversu Noregr byggdist. The genealogical work Hversu...
    4 KB (509 words) - 13:32, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hel (mythological being)
    sister") in the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa. In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Hel is referred to...
    31 KB (3,993 words) - 13:38, 14 April 2024
  • Ynglingatal (redirect from Ynglinga tal)
    Ynglingatal or Ynglinga tal (Old Norse: 'Enumeration of the Ynglingar') is a Skaldic poem cited by Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, the first saga of Snorri's...
    31 KB (4,221 words) - 09:38, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Æsir
    contained within Völuspá, Ynglinga saga and Skáldskaparmál. This conflict between the gods occurred long in the past and in Ynglinga saga ends with the exchange...
    36 KB (3,955 words) - 01:27, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Skjöldr
    Edda, in Ynglinga saga, in Chronicon Lethrense, in Sven Aggesen's history, in Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo...
    12 KB (560 words) - 15:19, 14 April 2024
  • in the 13th century by an unknown source, and the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, a euhemerized account of the Norse gods composed by Snorri Sturluson...
    7 KB (933 words) - 01:09, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Munsö
    Icelandic sagas, sometimes contradictory mixtures of myths and poetry, and poems, these works (including texts such as Ynglinga saga, Hervarar saga, Ynglingatal...
    18 KB (1,825 words) - 23:00, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Njörðr
    Njörðr (section Egils saga)
    Kings' sagas collected in Heimskringla; Ynglinga saga, the Saga of Hákon the Good and the Saga of Harald Graycloak. In chapter 4 of Ynglinga saga, Njörðr...
    25 KB (3,310 words) - 18:11, 5 April 2024
  • Onela (section Norse sagas)
    ring Svíagris. Aðils considered the pay outrageous and refused. In the Ynglinga saga, Snorri relates that king Eadgils fought hard battles with the Norwegian...
    9 KB (811 words) - 18:17, 18 March 2024