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Viking
Sagas Online
Heimskringla or, The Chronicle
of the Kings of Norway
The Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #15, arranged
in alphabetical order. Notes are from the introduction of the sagas
- Halfdan the Black Saga
- Harald Harfager's
Saga
- Saga of King Harald Grafeld and
of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
- Saga of Harald Hardrade
Harald, son of Sigurd Syr, was born in the year A.D. 1015, and left Norway A.D. 1030. He
was called Hardrade, that is, the severe counsellor, the tyrant, though the Icelanders
never applied this epithet to him. Harald helped the Icelanders in the famine of A.D.
1056, and sent them timber for a church at Thingvol. It was the Norwegians who gave him
the name tyrant in contrast to the "debonairete" of Magnus. He came to Norway in
A.D. 1046, and became sole king in A.D. 1047. He died in A.D. 1066, and his son and
successor Magnus died in A.D. 1069.
- Harald Harfager's
Saga
- Magnus Barefoot's
Saga
- Magnus Erlingson's Saga
- Saga of Magnus the Blind and of
Harald Gille
- Saga of Magnus the Good
Magnus reigned from A.D. 1035 to 1047, when he died. During the last year of his reign his
half-brother Harald Sigurdson was his co-regent.
- Saga of Olaf Kyrre
- King Olaf
Trygvason's Saga Hitherto the narrative has been more or less fragmentary. With Olaf
Trygvason's Saga reliable history begins, and the narration is full and connected. The
story of Hakon the earl is incorporated in this saga.
- Saga of Olaf Haraldson
Olaf Haraldson the Saint's Saga is the longest, the most important, and the most finished
of all the sagas in "Heimskringla". The life of Olaf will be found treated more
or less freely in "Agrip", in "Historia Norvegiae", in "Thjodrek
the Monk", in the legendary saga, and in "Fagrskinna".
- Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein,
the Sons of Harald Sigurd died A.D. 1155, Eystein 1157, and Inge 1161.
- Saga of Sigurd the Crusader
and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf
- The Ynglinga Saga. The
Story of the Yngling Family from Odin to Halfdan the Black
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