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The work assembles a series of medieval sagas that trace successive rulers across generations, blending narrative episodes of battles, feuds, voyages, laws, and dynastic succession with poetic interludes and reported dreams. Its structure interleaves episodic biographies and annalistic entries, recounting political contests, legal rulings, conversions to Christianity, and reports of miracles and omens. Skaldic verse and eyewitness-style anecdotes are used to punctuate chronicle sections, creating a mix of legend and historical reporting. Readers encounter recurring concerns with kingship, honor, power, law, and the social customs that shaped leadership and conflict.

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Title: Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

Author: Snorri Sturluson

Release date: July 1, 1996 [eBook #598]
Most recently updated: February 8, 2013

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Douglas B. Killings, and David Widger

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HEIMSKRINGLA

OR

THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY


By Snorri Sturlason

(c.1179-1241)



Originally written in Old Norse, app. 1225 A.D., by the poet and historian Snorri Sturlason.





TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

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.

The Sagas covered in this work are the following:

  1.  Halfdan the Black Saga
  2.  Harald Harfager's Saga
  3.  Hakon the Good's Saga
  4.  Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
  5.  King Olaf Trygvason's Saga
  6.  Saga of Olaf Haraldson (St. Olaf)
  7.  Saga of Magnus the Good
  8.  Saga of Harald Hardrade
  9.  Saga of Olaf Kyrre
  10. Magnus Barefoot's Saga
  11. Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf
  12. Saga of Magnus the Blind and of Harald Gille
  13. Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald
  14. Saga of Hakon Herdebreid ("Hakon the Broad-Shouldered")
  15. Magnus Erlingson's Saga

While scholars and historians continue to debate the historical accuracy of Sturlason's work, the "Heimskringla" is still considered an important original source for information on the Viking Age, a period which Sturlason covers almost in its entirety.