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"The Saga of King Olaf" is written in twenty-two parts and follows the adventures of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway, spurred to avenge his slain father and reclaim his kingdom by the Norse god Thor. It is the longest section of Longfellow's 1863 book Tales of a Wayside Inn , where it is presented as "The Musician's Tale".
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.
Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken (Vingulmark, and Rånrike), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway.
Saint Olaf (c. 995 – 29 July 1030), also called Olaf the Holy, Olaf II, Olaf Haraldsson, and Olaf the Stout, [1] was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028. Son of Harald Grenske, a petty king in Vestfold, Norway, [2] he was posthumously given the title Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae (English: Eternal/Perpetual King of Norway) and canonised at Nidaros by Bishop Grimketel, one year after his death in the ...
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
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.
The king says he has been told King Godmund is a dangerous sorcerer, and orders the horns kept and used. After another year, it is once more the eighth day of Christmas; when King Ólaf is attending mass, two men come to the church door and leave a third, referring to him as a skeleton. This is Helgi, and he is now blind; he tells King Ólaf ...
The saga written by Oddr has a generally accepted range of 1180-1200. [4] A newer consensus on the dating of the two sagas places the Saga of Olaf Trygvason before the Oldest Saga of Saint Olaf because of the narrative beats of the stories of Olaf, which Oddr’s version explores more thoroughly compared to the shortened versions in the Oldest ...