verse. Fagrskinna is one of the kings' sagas, written around 1220. It takes its name from one of the manuscripts in which it was preserved, Fagrskinna meaning...
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Eric Bloodaxe (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
Icelandic kings' sagas Orkneyinga saga (c. 1200), Fagrskinna (c. 1225), the Heimskringla ascribed to Snorri Sturluson (c. 1230), Egils saga (1220–1240), and...
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Heimskringla (redirect from Snorre Saga)
Snorri's work 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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but before Fagrskinna. Fagrskinna, c. 1220. Óláfs saga helga by Styrmir Kárason, c. 1220, mostly lost. Böglunga sögur, c. 1225. Separate Saga of St. Olaf...
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Halfdan the Black (section In sagas)
1230), Fagrskinna (c. 1220), Ágrip (c. 1190) and Historia Norwegiæ (late 12th century). The most elaborate story is found in the latest saga, Heimskringla...
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elaborate account of the battle. This was taken up by the later Icelandic sagas, Fagrskinna and Heimskringla (ca. 1220), both of which add quotations of skaldic...
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1974. Konungs Skuggsjá and Hirdskraa. Norse Kings' sagas: Fagrskinna, Heimskringla, Óláfs saga helga. Sagas of Icelanders: Egils Saga, Fornmanna Sögur....
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century Fagrskinna is thought to be based on Oddr Snorrason's. Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (c. 1230s) includes an Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar. Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar...
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Harald Fairhair (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
same as in Snorri's earlier Hálfdanar saga svarta in Heimskringla, but contradicts Fagrskinna. Both Hálfdanar saga svarta and Ragnarssona þáttr have issues...
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certain is known of their subsequent fates. A pair of Norwegian king-sagas, Fagrskinna and Morkinskinna, identify Skuli Konungsfóstri, male-line ancestor...
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