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    Morkinskinna is an Old Norse kings' saga, relating the history of Norwegian kings from approximately 1025 to 1157. The saga was written in Iceland around...
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    similar account is given in one of Snorri's main sources, the collection Morkinskinna, which seems to have given the title Saga Magnús góða ok Haralds harðráða...
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  • defeated and killed at the Battle of Holmengrå. According to the sagas Morkinskinna and Heimskringla, Inge’s infirmity stemmed from having been carried into...
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    Ireland). His story appears in Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, the saga Morkinskinna, and a saga composed by Oddr Snorrason on Olaf Tryggvason. According...
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  • Research, 1998. Legendary Óláfs saga helga, ch. 71 Morkinskinna, ed. Finnur Jónsson. Morkinskinna. Copenhagen: Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk...
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    Vistula in Poland". [in:] Theodore Murdock Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030–1157)...
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    on 24 July 2023. Retrieved 24 July 2023. Andersson, Theodore Murdock; Morkinskinna, Ellen Gade (2000). The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian...
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    previously been in exile to Yaroslav following the revolt in 1028, and Morkinskinna says that Yaroslav embraced Harald first and foremost because he was...
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    (Magnus Berrføtt), was acknowledged to be his illegitimate son. The Morkinskinna (c. 1220) describes Olaf III as: "[A] tall man, and everyone agrees that...
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    the 1180s and the Icelandic sagas Heimskringla (by Snorri Sturluson), Morkinskinna and Fagrskinna, which date to about the 1220s. While the later sagas...
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    Heimskringla are disputed, but they include earlier kings' sagas, such as Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna and the 12th-century Norwegian synoptic histories and oral...
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  • were again worshiping Old Norse deities. According to the kings' saga Morkinskinna, Sigurd experienced a rapid mental decline before his death. He died...
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  • Haraldr inn harðráði Sigurðsson), as the saga is told in the manuscripts Morkinskinna, Flateyjarbók, and several others. Widely translated and anthologised...
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  • (PDF) on 2009-08-24. Retrieved 2015-07-05. Gade, Kari (trans.) (2000) Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157)...
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    such as "Hreiðars þáttr" and "Sneglu-Halla þáttr" of the kings' saga Morkinskinna could be included in this corpus, as well as the contemporary sagas (written...
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    Vistula in Poland". [in:] Theodore Murdock Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade Morkinskinna : The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030–1157)...
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  • sources to Sigurd’s reign are the kings’ sagas Heimskringla, Fagrskinna, Morkinskinna and Ágrip. The three former base at least part of their account on the...
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    several Icelandic sagas about him, including Fagrskinna (c. 1220) and Morkinskinna (c. 1225–1235). Heimskringla (c. 1225), by Snorri Sturluson, largely...
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  • sources to Eystein's reign are the kings' sagas Heimskringla, Fagrskinna, Morkinskinna and Ágrip. The three former base at least part of their account on the...
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    flattering image of the new king is provided by the Icelandic manuscript Morkinskinna (c. 1220), which says: "King Stenkil was a portly man and heavy on his...
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    saga, by Karl Jónsson, c. 1205. Legendary Saga of St. Olaf, c. 1210. Morkinskinna, c. 1220 but before Fagrskinna. Fagrskinna, c. 1220. Óláfs saga helga...
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    365. Jakobsson, Ármann (13 September 2013). "Image is Everything: The Morkinskinna Account of King Sigurðr of Norway's Journey to the Holy Land". Parergon...
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    phrase sævar goð ("god of the sea") and in drauma goð ("god of dreams"). Morkinskinna further describes copper images of æsir, Völsungs and Gjúkings at the...
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  • to appeal to King Harald. The þáttr is contained in the kings' saga Morkinskinna, and an extended version exists in Flateyjarbók, which is the basis for...
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  • Editor, formerly known as "Ormr" Ormr, a figure in the Old Norse saga Morkinskinna This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ormr...
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    the line of monarchs, while there are many observations on Cnut. The Morkinskinna covers Harthacnut's death in some detail, but records next to nothing...
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    Svein's sister, yet he is likely the same Åsmund named as son of Beorn in Morkinskinna. In 1026, Swedish King Anund Jakob and Norwegian King Olaf II took advantage...
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    born in 1074; Henry, who dethroned his father, was born in 1086. The Morkinskinna—the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings—refers to a daughter...
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  • manuscripts, Morkinskinna and Flateyjarbók, and within them most are found as digressions within kings' sagas. Sverrir Tómasson regards those in Morkinskinna, at...
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    Kárason A saga of King Magnus the Good and King Harald Hardrada of the Morkinskinna type Hemings þáttr Áslákssonar Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka Sneglu-Halla...
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