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Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar is the name of several kings' sagas on the life of Óláfr Tryggvason, a 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 formed the basis of Old Norse sagas on his life including in the collection of texts referred to as Heimskringla by scholars.
Flateyjarbók is the largest medieval Icelandic manuscript, comprising 225 written and illustrated vellum leaves. It contains mostly sagas of the Norse kings as found in the Heimskringla, specifically the sagas about Olaf Tryggvason, St. Olaf, Sverre, Hákon the Old, Magnus the Good, and Harald Hardrada.
Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta or The Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason [1] is generically a hybrid of different types of sagas and compiled from various sources in the fourteenth century, but is most akin to one of the kings' sagas.
Saga Olafs konungs Tryggvasunar: Kong Olaf Tryggvesöns saga forfattet paa latin henimod slutningen af det tolfte arrhundrede af Odd Snorreson. Christiania: Brøgger & Christie. pp. 25–26. Translation. Andersson, Theodore M. (2003). The saga of Olaf Tryggvason by Oddr Snorrason. Islandica. Vol. 52. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 77–79.
Liliana Poppandova. "Norna-Gests Þáttr, Helga Þáttr þórissonar, Sörla Þáttr und Þorsteins Þáttr skelks im Kontext der Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta". Master's thesis, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2007. OCLC 611673589 (in German)
Detail from the Stora Hammars I stone, an image stone on Gotland Detail from the Smiss (I) stone, an image stone on Gotland. Sörla þáttr eða Heðins saga ok Högna is a short narrative from the extended version Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta [1] found in the Flateyjarbók manuscript, [2] which was written and compiled by two Christian priests, Jon Thordson and Magnus Thorhalson, [3] in ...
A sheet of Bergsbók manuscript and miniature.Royal Library of Stockholm, Sweden.. Bergsbók is an Icelandic manuscript from the early 15th century. It contains the kings' sagas Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, a long version of Óláfs saga helga and several short texts and poems, mostly associated with the two kings.
It contains mostly sagas of the Norse kings as found in the Heimskringla, specifically the sagas about Olaf Tryggvason, St. Olaf, Sverre, Hákon the Old, Magnus the Good, and Harald Hardrada. Pages in category "Flateyjarbók"