The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nationsDu Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
│
│IX.-X. (the
Landnama │ colonisation of
│ Iceland).
│
Islendinga bok │IX.-XI. (c.
│ 874–1118).
Ljosvetninga │990–1050.
Vemund’s Saga │End of X. century.
Svarfdœla │First half of X.
│ century.
│
Biskupa Sögur contains:— │
Kristni Saga │X.-XII. (c.
│ 980–1120).
Sturlunga │XII.-XIII. (c.
│ 1120–1284).
│
Fornmanna Sögur contains:— │
I. Sagas of Kings of Norway │
II. Jomsvikinga Saga │X.
III. Knytlinga Saga │XI.-XII.
IV. Fagrskinna (short history of Kings of Norway│IX.-XII.
from Halfdan the Black to Sverrir) │
│
│Written in first half
│ of XIII. cent.,
Heimskringla Saga contains the Ynglinga Saga, the│ giving history of
great work of Snorri Sturluson │ the Kings of Norway
│ and Sweden from
│ Odin down to 1177.
│
Flateyjarbok contains lives of Kings of Norway, │
etc. │
│
Fostbrædra Saga │XI. (c. 1015–30).
│
Konung’s Skuggsja │XIII.
│
Rimbegla │XIV.
│
Orkneyinga │IX.-XIII. (c.
│ 870–1206).
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A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL KINGS OF DENMARK, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN,
SOME OF WHOM HAVE SAGAS OF THEIR OWN.
KINGS OF DENMARK.
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