Oddr Snorrason whose name is also sometimes Anglicized as Odd Snorrason was a 12th-century Icelandic Benedictine monk at the Þingeyraklaustur monastery...
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Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar (redirect from Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar (Oddr Snorrason))
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...
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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...
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Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson 1941:cxxx. Oddr Snorrason 2003:119. Oddr Snorrason 2003:123. Oddr Snorrason 2003:123–124. Oddr Snorrason 2003:126. Nicholson 2003:155...
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by Snorri Sturluson, the saga Morkinskinna, and a saga composed by Oddr Snorrason on Olaf Tryggvason. According to Heimskringla, in 1033, during the lordship...
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Snorrason may refer to: Ólafur Páll Snorrason (born 1982), Icelandic international footballer who plays club football as a striker Oddr Snorrason, Latin...
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legendary saga said to have been written in the twelfth century by Oddr Snorrason. The tale tells of a Viking expedition to somewhere in southern Russia...
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Medieval and Classical Literature Library. Retrieved October 26, 2015. Oddr Snorrason; Theodore Murdock Andersson (2003). The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason....
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Hervarar saga. An account is found in the Old Norse translation of Oddr Snorrason's lost Latin life of the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason, known as Odds...
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Christianity if he emerged victorious from the battle of Svolder. Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar has a more elaborate version of the story where...
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narrative greatly with content from the previous biographies of the king by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson as well as less directly related material. The...
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when Bolli married Kjartan's lover Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir. According to Oddr Snorrason, Olaf had predicted that strife would ensue between Kjartan and Bolli...
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companions. It is believed to have been composed shortly after 1170. Oddr Snorrason made use of it in his Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar, in a section known as...
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Hlaðajarla saga (c. 1200) Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar from a version by Oddr Snorrason (c. 1190) a lost version of Óláfs saga helga Knúts saga ríka (after...
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Two main sagas include Tormod’s death, the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason by Oddr Snorrason, and the collection Heimskringla attributed to Snorri Sturluson. However...
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of Germania before marrying a young Óláfr Tryggvasonr. According to Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, she was...
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of Olaf Tryggvason (both by Snorri Sturluson in Heimskringla and by Oddr Snorrason), the Saga of Half & His Heroes and the Flateyjarbok. He also appears...
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debated as early as the saga writers, or to put it in the words of Oddr Snorrason: We do know that there are some saga tellers who say that Yngvarr was...
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seeresses. Although he may not have transmitted a historical event, Oddr Snorrason, who wrote the saga in the 12th c., clearly identified Olga as a völva...
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influenced highly on Nóregs konungatal, and the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason by Oddr Snorrason. In Icelandic folklore, Sæmundr is a larger-than-life character who...
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the Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar written by his monastic brother, Oddr Snorrason. Snorri Sturluson made use of Gunnlaugr's work when composing his Heimskringla...
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where Ingvar the Far-Travelled is compared to his kinsman Styrbjörn. Oddr Snorrason also mentions him in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar (around 1190), writing...
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Tryggvason had been the "first to bring Christianity to Norway"; the monk Oddr Snorrason attributed the conversion of five countries—Iceland, Greenland, the...
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lived until his old age, and many people are descended from him. In Oddr Snorrason's Saga of Olaf Tryggvason Skúli is mentioned as one of the last people...
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Trans. The Saga of the Jomsvikings. University of Texas Press, 1989. Oddr Snorrason (translated by Theodore M. Andersson) (2003). The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason...
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af Nóregskonungasögum, c. 1190. A Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Oddr Snorrason, c. 1190, survives in translation. A Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by...
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as a husband during his time in England in the 990s. According to Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, Gyða was...
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þættir". The tale is recorded in Oddr Snorrason’s Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and the later Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta. Oddr’s work was originally composed...
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saga of Olaf from about 1220 by Styrmir Kárason, now mostly lost. Oddr Snorrason's Life of Óláfr Tryggvason, and possibly a Latin life of the same figure...
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Bergsson (Ník) Oddi inn litli Glúmsson (Oddi) Oddr breiðfirðingr (Obreið) Oddr kíkinaskáld (Okík) Oddr Snorrason (OSnorr) Ormarr (Ormarr) Ormr Barreyjarskáld...
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