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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.
Cows that become supernaturally powerful appear in other sagas. A man-eating sacrifice-bull with a terrifying bellowing appears in Hjálmþes saga ok Ǫlvis. In Olafs saga Tryggvasonar, there is a king of old who worshiped a cow and drank its milk.
The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason An 1895 English translation (also at the Internet Archive) Hèr hefr upp Sögu Ólafs konúngs Tryggvasonar Text based primarily on AM 61 fol. (Also here, in modern Icelandic spelling
Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar describes how holy horses were kept at a hof in Thrandheim. When the saga's namesake journeyed there to destroy the site, he finds one of the stallions about to be killed for Frey to eat. He then mounts the horse and rides it to the hof, before dragging Frey out of the building.
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.
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.
The þáttr occurs in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, a compendious saga of King Olaf Tryggvason composed at the start of the 14th century, and in a shorter form in the Vatnshyrna manuscripts of Víga-Glúms saga, indicating it was composed prior to the mid-13th century. [1]
In the 1190s, two 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 the basis of later Norse versions. Snorri Sturluson gives an extensive account of Olaf in the Heimskringla saga of circa 1230, using Oddr Snorrason's saga as his ...