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    Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar ("The Saga of Haakon Haakonarson") or Hákonar saga gamla ("The Saga of Old Haakon") is an Old Norse Kings' Saga, telling the...
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     1230. Knýtlinga saga, probably by Ólafr Þórðarson, c. 1260. Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, by Sturla Þórðarson, c. 1265. Magnúss saga lagabœtis, by Sturla...
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    material from Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar; the latter contains interpolations from Þorgils saga Skarða and also contains Sturlu þáttr and two sagas which are...
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    support against Rǫgnvaldr. Also in 1224, the thirteenth-century Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar reports that a certain Gillikristr, Óttar Snækollsson, and many...
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    recorded in detail in the 11th century Orkneyinga sagas and later texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. According to the latter, King Haakon IV of Norway...
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    (2004) p. 134. Mac an Tàilleir (2003) p. 105. Watson (1994) p. 77. Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, § 328, line 8 Retrieved 2 February 2011. Gammeltoft 2006, p. 71...
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  • Icelandic saga Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. He is recorded as being active in the year 1223; and his death is recorded in the year 1231. The saga also states...
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    either "good island" or "God island". The Norse historical text Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar explicitly calls the island Guðey. Despite this, Keay and Keay...
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  • he may be regarded as the instigator of Scottish aggression. Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar tells us that in Norway: "In the previous summer [i.e. that of...
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  • Strangers Balki 'the Young' Pálsson, a character in the Old Norse saga Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar Balkhi (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • as far back as the 1260s when it was written about in the book Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. The book says that the king fought against the Ribbungene at...
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    the saga then, on request of King Magnus himself. He had earlier commissioned Sturla to write the saga of his father, Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. There...
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    including Gudine Geig, a hirdmann of Duke Skule mentioned in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. A stepson of the Earl of Northumbria, Skúli Kongsfostre came...
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  • telling a saga called Huldar saga. He is best known for writing Íslendinga saga, the longest saga within Sturlunga saga, and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, the...
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    the Ayrshire coast. The main Norwegian source for the battle is Hakonar saga Hakonarsonar, a contemporary account of the life of Hakon Haakonarson, King...
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    leksikon) Inga – mor til Håkon Håkonsson (Store norske leksikon( "Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages)". Archived from...
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    is based on unclear mentions in old saga and chronicle material, especially the Norwegian Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. It is to an extent accepted in research...
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    Hålogaland (category Saga locations)
    they extend to north of Bjarmaland (Bjarmia). As recorded in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, King Hákon Hákonarson settled some of the people of Bjarmaland...
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    called "Margad" in the original Norwegian text. According to Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, "In this expedition King Haco regained all those provinces which...
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  • evidenced by the Chronicle of Mann and the thirteenth-century Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. After Haraldr removed from Oslo to Bergen, these sources reveal...
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    Flateyjarbók (category Kings' sagas)
    Grœnlendinga saga ("History of the Greenlanders"), giving an account of the Vinland colony with some differences from the account contained in Eiríks saga rauða...
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    earlier, non-Gaelic language. In the Norse sagas, Skye is called Skíð, for example in the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar and a skaldic poem in the Heimskringla...
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    another man, is unknown. Much like the saga, the Sleat History identifies Guðrøðr as "the black". Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar exists in several mediaevel redactions...
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  • merchants' island Oileáin Chóplainn The Norse name appears in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (1230). Later influenced by the Norman surname de Coupland, Copeland...
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    Chronicle Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar records the valiant deeds of a Scottish knight at the Battle of Largs in 1263. His name is recorded in the saga as "Ferus"...
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  • character from the mediaeval Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, a kings' saga composed in the last half of the 13th century. The saga relates that in about the year...
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  • recorded appearance in 1249. It is mentioned in the 13th century Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar as the property of an island king of the family of Somerled, demanded...
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    of Óspakr-Hákon, King of the Isles (died 1230). According to Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, Óspakr's forces fought for three days to take the castle, breaking...
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    124 folios, it contains Heimskringla (without the Saga of Saint Olaf) and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. The manuscript might have been written in Iceland...
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    the compiler of Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, Hákon intended to "avenge the warfare that the Scots had made in his dominions". The saga reveals that the...
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