The Skjöldunga saga (or, in another standardised Old Norse spelling, Skjǫldunga saga) was an Old Norse legendary saga. Dating from c. 1180 – 1200, the...
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Hrothgar (section Skjöldunga saga and Bjarkarímur)
Kraki's saga make Froda the brother of Healfdene, the Skjöldunga saga and Bjarkarímur make Ingeld the brother of Healfdene. Hrólfr Kraki's saga also disagrees...
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Danish kings. The saga refers to names found in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, ancestors of Ecgberht, King of Wessex. The Skjöldunga saga tells that Sigurd...
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Eadgils (section Skjöldunga saga)
Geatish help, and in two Scandinavian sources (Skáldskaparmál and Skjöldunga saga), he is also helped to defeat Onela in the Battle on the Ice of Lake...
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Valdar (section Skjöldunga saga)
Aud Djupaudga) who was a legendary king of Denmark and Sweden. The Skjöldunga saga and Hversu Noregr byggdist tell the tale of a Valdar who succeeded...
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Skjöldunga saga, c. 1180, badly preserved. Oldest Saga of St. Olaf, c. 1190, mostly lost. Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum, c. 1190. A Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar...
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Dana ok svíaveldi is an Old Icelandic saga fragment which is believed to be a part of the original Skjöldunga saga. The fragment begins in the middle of...
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Skjöldr (section Legendary sagas)
in Ynglinga saga, in Chronicon Lethrense, in Sven Aggesen's history, in Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus'...
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Yrsa (section Skjöldunga saga)
The Skjöldunga saga was used by Snorri Sturluson as a source when he told the story of Aðils (Eadgils) and Yrsa. What remains of the Skjöldunga saga is...
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Hrólfr Kraki (section Skjöldunga saga)
conflict is instead rendered as a family feud (see Hrólf Kraki's saga and Skjöldunga saga). The Chronicon Lethrense and the included Annales Lundenses tell...
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Ingeld (section Skjöldunga saga and Bjarkarímur)
the feud that is similar to the one told in the Skjöldunga saga, Bjarkarímur and Hrólfr Kraki's saga, where the Heaðobards had been forgotten and the...
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Skuld (princess) (section Skjöldunga saga)
named characters appear in the Skjöldunga saga and the Gesta Danorum, as well as the Chronicon Lethrense. Hrólfs saga kraka tells that one Yule, Helgi...
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Onela (section Norse sagas)
much is told about this event in the Skjöldunga saga, and that Adils took Hrafn (Raven), Áli's horse. The Saga of the Skjöldungs is lost but in the end...
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appearing in tales of Hrólfr Kraki in the Hrólfs saga kraka, in the Latin epitome to the lost Skjöldunga saga, and as Biarco in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum...
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Heimskringla (redirect from Snorre Saga)
(covering events 1130–61), Skjǫldunga saga, an unidentified saga about Knútr inn gamli, and a text called Jarlasǫgurnar ('sagas of the jarls', which seems...
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Hrœrekr Ringslinger (section Skjôldunga saga)
Lethrense, Annals of Lund, Gesta Danorum, Sögubrot, Njáls saga, Hversu Noregr byggðist, Skjöldunga saga, and Bjarkarímur. Connection with such historical figures...
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end peaceful. In the Saga of Hrolf Kraki, this Fróði is Halfdan's younger brother but in the Latin epitome to the Skjöldunga saga the younger brother,...
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Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum (category Saga stubs)
legendary Swedish and Danish kings. It is thought to be based on the lost Skjöldunga saga and perhaps represents a late state of that work. The fragment begins...
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invention to explain the name. There was once a Norse saga on the dynasty, the Skjöldunga saga, but it survives only in a Latin summary by Arngrímur Jónsson...
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Harald the Old (section Skjöldunga saga)
father of Halfdan the Valiant and the grandfather of Ivar Vidfamne. Skjöldunga saga tells that the same Valdar (i.e. Harald's father) disputed that Rörek...
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Halga (section Skjöldunga saga and Bjarkarímur)
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 had...
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Signy (section In Völsunga saga)
Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra. They are both delivered from a curse by a young man named Illugi. A fourth Signy was Hroðgar's sister in Skjöldunga saga and Hrólfs...
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Peterson 2007, p. 82. Tolkien 1960, pp. 3, 68. Tolkien 1960, p. 3. In Hervarar saga named Angantýr, Hjörvard, Hervard1, Hrani, and the two Haddings. Orvar-Odd'saga...
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Swerting (section Skjöldunga saga and Bjarkarímur)
son Ingeld also appears with the name forms Ingjald or Ingellus. The Skjöldunga saga and the Bjarkarímur tell that the king of Sweden, Jorund, was defeated...
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appearing in tales of Hrólf Kraki in the Saga of Hrólf Kraki, in the Latin epitome to the lost Skjöldunga saga, and as Biarco in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta...
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was married to Skuld, who according to Angrim's summary of the lost Skjöldunga saga was the daughter of Aðils the Swedish king (called Eadgils in Beowulf)...
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Hroar (Hrothgar). (In Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin summary to the lost Skjöldunga saga the names Fróði and Ingjald are interchanged. Saxo Grammaticus (Book...
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included. figures who have been multiplicated in e.g. Gesta Danorum and Skjöldunga saga, such as the many Fróðis and Halfdans (corresponding to only one Froda...
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Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern (section Norse sagas)
told about this event in the saga of the Sköldungs, and that Adils took Hrafn (Raven), Áli's horse. The Skjöldunga saga is lost but at the end of the...
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Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum, Icelandic sagas Hrólfs saga kraka, the Skjöldunga saga and the Ynglinga saga, Norse mythological poems Skáldskaparmál and...
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