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...
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Fjölnir (section Ynglingatal)
Peace-Fróði (Friðfróði), the king of Zealand. Snorri also quoted some lines of Ynglingatal, composed in the 9th century: Varð framgengt, þars Fróði bjó, feigðarorð...
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Ingvar (section Ynglingatal)
Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after Eysteinn): Ynglingatal only mentions the location Sysla...
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through the poem Ynglingatal. The dynasty also appears as Scylfings (Old Norse Skilfingar) in Beowulf. When Beowulf and Ynglingatal were composed sometime...
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generally identified with the Swedish king Egil Vendelcrow mentioned in Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegiae and in Ynglinga saga. The reason why they are thought...
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of Hvinir (Kvinesdal). Two skaldic poems, Haustlǫng (Autumn-long) and Ynglingatal (Enumeration of the Ynglingar), are generally attributed to him. According...
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Eadgils (section Ynglingatal)
century and the 11th century, is (beside the Norwegian skaldic poem Ynglingatal from the 9th century) the oldest source that mentions Eadgils. The text...
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quoted some lines from Ynglingatal composed in the 9th century: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal written in the late 12th...
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quoted some lines from Ynglingatal composed in the 9th century: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation:...
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illråde, ruler of the House of Yngling in the 7th century according to Ynglingatal, a Skaldic poem detailing the kings of that house. His mother was Gauthild...
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Sturluson included a piece from Ynglingatal composed in the 9th century: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation:...
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legendary Yngling dynasty. In fact, the oldest Scandinavian sources, such as Ynglingatal, the Westrogothic law and the Gutasaga talk of the King of the Swedes...
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Aun (section Ynglingatal)
called Aun's sickness. The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after Jorund): based on the...
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Snorri included a piece from Ynglingatal (9th century): The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation:...
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of Stocksund. Ynglingatal then gives Alrekr and Eiríkr as Agne's successors. The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's...
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chapter 17, the king Dyggvi dies of sickness. A poem from the 9th-century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's...
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of Domalde in his Ynglinga saga (1225): Snorri included a piece from Ynglingatal (9th century) in his account in the Heimskringla: Hitt vas fyrr, at fold...
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of Vestfold in what is today Norway in the 9th century, according to Ynglingatal and to Ynglinga saga in Heimskringla. He was apparently a member of the...
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ambushed by a thrall and killed. The earliest two versions based on Ynglingatal, i.e. Historia Norwegiæ and Íslendingabók (see below) say that Dag was...
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Eysteinn (section Ynglingatal)
needed] Stanza from Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's Ynglingatal: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing...
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Ingjald (section Ynglingatal and Historia Norwegiae)
set the hall on fire and succumbed in the flames. The citation from Ynglingatal does not appear to describe Ingjald as an evil king. It calls his life...
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Gothiscandza (section Ynglingatal)
According to a tale related by Jordanes in his Getica, Gothiscandza was the first settlement area of the Goths after their migration from Scandza during...
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illustrates this event with the stanza from Ynglingatal: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation, continuing...
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a piece from Ynglingatal (9th century) in his account in the Heimskringla: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's...
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daughter of King Dag of Vestmar. Gudrød is mentioned in the skaldic poem Ynglingatal, and Snorri Sturluson elaborates on Gudrød's story in Heimskringla. According...
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skalds and historians, some based on now lost works: Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's Ynglingatal, in Nóregs konungatal (which preserves information from a lost work by...
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brothers or other close relations. They killed each other. According to Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegiae and Ynglinga saga, Yngvi and Alf were the sons of...
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Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal og Hyndluljóð [The sacred wedding and Norse royal ideology. An analysis of the hierogamy myth in Skírnismál, Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal...
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below): Ynglingatal then gives Yngvi and Alf as Alrek's and Eirík's successors. The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than...
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Sturluson quotes Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's Ynglingatal: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing...
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