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2. Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Olaf Tryggvason - Wikipedia

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   Snorri Sturluson claims in Olaf Tryggvson's saga that Olaf was born on an islet in Fjærlandsvatnet, where his mother Astrid Eiriksdottir, daughter of Eirik Bjodaskalle, was hiding from her husband's killers, led by Harald Greycloak, the son of Eirik Bloodaxe. Greycloak and his brothers had seized the throne from Haakon the Good. Astrid fled to ...

4. Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Sörla þáttr - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Flateyjarbók - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Legendary Saga of St. Olaf - Wikipedia

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   The anonymous author may have been a Norwegian and the saga is preserved in one mid-13th-century Norwegian manuscript. [2] It is thought to have been composed in the early 13th century. [3] Snorri Sturluson is believed to have used a work closely similar to the Legendary Saga when he composed his Separate Saga of St. Olaf and Heimskringla. [4]

8. Óláfsdrápa Tryggvasonar - Wikipedia

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   Óláfsdrápa Tryggvasonar (The drápa of Óláfr Tryggvason) is an Icelandic skaldic poem from ca. 1200. It relates the life story of the 10th century King Óláfr Tryggvason from his upbringing in Russia to his death at Svöldr .

9. Helga þáttr Þórissonar - Wikipedia

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   He sleeps with her for three nights, and as a parting gift she gives him a chest full of gold and another full of silver, but warns him that he must tell no one where they came from. Returning home to Norway, where the brothers live with their father, Þórir, near the Oslofjord , Helgi spends some of the money decorating his and his brother's ...