• Fóstbrœðra saga (listen) or The Saga of the Sworn Brothers is one of the sagas of Icelanders. It relates the deeds of the sworn brothers Þorgeir and Þormóðr...
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    Heimskringla (redirect from Snorre Saga)
    text with many þættir and other whole sagas, prominently Orkneyinga saga, Færeyinga saga, and Fóstbrœðra saga. The text is also referenced in Journey...
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    development: 1200 to 1230 – Sagas that deal with skalds (such as Fóstbrœðra saga) 1230 to 1280 – Family sagas (such as Laxdæla saga) 1280 to 1300 – Works that...
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    Fox the Cunning), a more novelistic tale from the 14th century, the Fóstbrœðra saga (The Story of the Oath Brothers), the story of Olaf Tryggvason in the...
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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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    Möðruvallabók (category Sagas of Icelanders)
    Droplaugarsona saga Ölkofra þáttr Hallfreðar saga Laxdœla saga Bolla þáttr Bollasonar Fóstbrœðra saga Many of those sagas are preserved in fragments elsewhere...
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    Icelandic texts, such as Fóstbrœðra saga, the Saga of Eric the Red, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, and Völuspá. Haukr tended to rewrite the sagas that he copied, generally...
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    three lines of a later stanza are also found in the manuscripts of Fóstbrœðra saga (again in slightly different versions). Quoted after the Codex Regius...
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  • morning before the start of the Battle of Stiklestad, according to Fóstbrœðra saga. In Bjarkamál, Rolf Krake has subdued the Swedes enough to make them...
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  • Speculum, 44 (1969), 35–45. F. J. Heinemann, 'The Hero on the Beach in Fóstbrœðra Saga', Neophilologus, 68 (1984), 557–61 Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, 'Guthlac...
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