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    Ynglinga saga (modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈiŋliŋka ˈsaːɣa]) is a Kings' saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian...
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    The Skjöldunga saga was used by Snorri Sturluson as a source when he told the story of Aðils (Eadgils) and Yrsa, in his Ynglinga saga, a part of the Heimskringla...
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    killed for having kidnapped Álfhildr, the princess of Alfheim. In the Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson tells what happened a few generations after the deaths...
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    Yrsa (section Ynglinga saga)
    Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Olson, 1916, at Project Gutenberg Hrólf Kraki's saga in English translation at Northvegr the Ynglinga saga...
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    Freyr (section Ynglinga saga)
    Snorri Sturluson starts his epic history of the kings of Norway with Ynglinga saga, a euhemerized account of the Norse gods. Here Odin and the Æsir are...
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  • Haki (section Ynglinga saga)
    Gesta Danorum, and in 13th-century sources including Ynglinga saga, Nafnaþulur, and the Völsunga saga. If historical, he would have lived in the 5th century...
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    event took place in the 8th century. Snorri Sturluson relates in his Ynglinga saga that King Ingvar, Östen's son, was a great warrior who often spent time...
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  • regarding the 8th and 9th centuries. The Ynglinga saga and Sögubrot make clear that his homeland was Scania. The sagas say that the Danish lands were divided...
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    presented as composed by Þjóðólfr of Hvinir by Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga. Although its age has been debated, most scholars hold to date from...
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    However, the two giantesses were to be his undoing (see Grottasöngr). The Ynglinga saga tells that Fjölnir was the son of Freyr himself and his wife Gerd, but...
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