Ynglinga saga (modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈiŋliŋka ˈsaːɣa]) is a Kings' saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian...
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Hrólfr Kraki (section Ynglinga saga)
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...
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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...
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Haki (section Ynglinga saga)
Chronicon Lethrense, and in 13th-century sources including Ynglinga saga, Nafnaþulur, and the Völsunga saga. If historical, he would have lived in the 5th century...
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Starkad (section Ynglinga saga)
killed for having kidnapped Álfhildr, the princess of Alfheim. In the Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson tells what happened a few generations after the deaths...
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Sonargöltr (section Ynglinga saga)
adds that the oaths were sworn while drinking the bragarfull toast: In Ynglinga saga the sonarblót is used for divination (til frettar). The association...
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Ivar Vidfamne (section Ivar in the sagas)
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...
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Olaf Geirstad-Alf (section Ynglinga saga)
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...
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Eadgils (section Ynglinga saga)
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...
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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...
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Ingvar (section Ynglinga saga)
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...
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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...
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Alaric and Eric (section In the Ynglinga saga)
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...
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Fjölnir (section Ynglinga saga)
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...
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Asgard (section Ynglinga Saga)
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...
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Halfdan the Valiant (section Ynglinga saga)
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...
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Heimskringla (redirect from Snorre Saga)
kings, the saga ends with Magnus V of Norway. Heimskringla contains the following sagas (see also List of Norwegian monarchs): Ynglinga saga Saga of Halfdanr...
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Fridlevus II (section Ynglinga saga)
Fridlevus or Fritleff is a legendary king of the Danes. According to Ynglinga saga, he was a son of Fróði of the Skjöldung (Scylding) lineage. In that...
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Ingjald (section Ynglinga saga)
Ynglinga saga, Historia Norvegiæ, Hervarar saga, Upplendinga Konungum, Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar and Íslendingabók. The setting of Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar...
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Dan (king) (section Ynglinga saga)
from King Aleif, creating the kingdom of Denmark. Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga relates the story of King Dygvi of Sweden: Dygvi's mother was Drótt...
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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...
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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...
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Hel (mythological being) (section Egils saga)
sister") in the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa. In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Hel is referred to...
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called the House of Skilfings: his kindred is in the Eastern Land. In Ynglinga Saga, Snorri discusses marriages between Swedish and Finnish royal families...
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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...
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various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasǫngr. A Danish king...
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from Jötunheim, who were able to shapeshift into tremendous oxen. The Ynglinga saga section of Snorri's Heimskringla and the Eddic poem Ragnarsdrápa tell...
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refer to one of the following: Yngling (keelboat), a type of sailboat. Ynglinga saga Ynglingatal The Yngling, a novel and serial by John Dalmas Yuengling...
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of Dygvvi's father Domar in his Ynglinga saga (1225): About Dyggvi's mother Snorri had more to say: In his Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson included a piece...
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