Heimskringla
The Chronicle of The Kings of Norway
by Snorri Sturlson | c.1179-1241 | 320,198 words
The "Heimskringla" of Snorri Sturlason is a collection of sagas concerning the various rulers of Norway, from about A.D. 850 to the year A.D. 1177....
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PRELIMINARY REMARKS
This saga might be called Gunhild's Saga, as she is the chief person in it. The reign of King Harald and Earl Hakon is more fully described in the next saga, that is, Olaf Trygvason's.
Other literature on this epoch:
- "Agrip" (chap. 8),
- "Historia Norvegia", (p. 12),
- "Thjodrek" (chap. 5),
- "Saxo" (pp. 479-482),
- "Egla" (chaps. 81, 82),
- "Floamanna" (chap. 12),
- "Fareyinga" (chaps. 2, 4, 10),
- "Halfred's Saga" (chap. 2),
- "Hord Grimkelsons Saga" (chaps. 13, 18),
- "Kormak" (chaps. 19-27),
- "Laxdaela" (chaps. 19-21),
- "Njala" (chaps, 3-6).
The skalds of this saga are: —
- Glum Geirason,
- Kormak Agmundson,
- Eyvind Skaldaspiller,
- and Einar Helgason Skalaglam.