Heimskringla: The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

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Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177.
Contents:
Kings' Sagas
Ynglinga Saga
Halfdan the Black Saga
Harald Harfager's Saga
Hakon the Good's Saga
Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
King Olaf Trygvason's Saga
Saga of Olaf Haraldson (St. Olaf)
Saga of Magnus the Good
Saga of Harald Hardrade
Saga of Olaf Kyrre
Magnus Barefoot's Saga
Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf
Saga of Magnus the Blind and of Harald Gille
Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald
Saga of Hakon Herdebreid
Magnus Erlingson's Saga


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Snorri Sturluson (1179 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker to the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning, a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.

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