According to that manuscript, Færeyinga Saga starts like this:

According to Færeyinga Saga there was an ancient institution on the headland Tinganes in Tórshavn on the island of Streymoy.

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, in the war which followed, Thorfinn defeated Karl in a sea-battle off Deerness at the east end of the Orkney Mainland.

According to the earliest source to the Faroe Islands, Færeyinga Saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway settled in the islands about the end of the 9th century.

According to Njal's Saga, he had a foster-son named Kerthialfad.

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Magnus had a reputation for piety and gentleness, and was rejected by the Norwegians, refusing to fight in a Viking raid in Anglesey, Wales, because of his religious convictions, instead staying on board his ships during the Battle of Menai Strait, singing psalms.

According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif apparently saw Vinland for the first time after being blown off course on his way to introduce Christianity to Greenland.

According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Leif had heard the story of merchant Bjarni Herjólfsson who claimed to have sighted land to the west of Greenland after having been blown off course.

According to Lorne Greene's song " Saga of the Ponderosa " (" Bonanza " four CD set biography notes / song, Bear Family Records, 1964 ), Marie's first husband was " Big Joe " Collins, who dies saving Ben's life.

According to some sources, the first to be given the name Minamoto was Minamoto no Makoto, seventh son of Emperor Saga.

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, in about 872 Harald Fairhair became King of a united Norway and many of his opponents fled to the islands of Scotland including the Hebrides of the west coast, and the Northern Isles.

According to Bock's autobiographical The Bock Saga, he was born as the result of an incestuous relationship between sea-captain Knut Victor Boxström ( 1860 – 1942 ), who would have been 81 years old at the time, and his daughter Rhea, 42.

According to the Bock Saga this used to be a collective tradition amongst men and women, where " heart-friends " ( of the same sex ) would share each other's liquids as a special favor and sacrament, to enhance their respective fertility and vitalize their neurological energy.

" According to " The Saga of Eirik the Red ", Gudrid was the daughter of a chieftain by the name of Thorbjorn of Laugarbrekka.

According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Gudrid then accompanied her husband on his quest to Vinland, with the hope that he could retrieve the body of his brother Thorvald ( the areas described as Vinland in the two Sagas have been identified as L ' Anse aux Meadows, in Newfoundland, Canada ).

According to the Saga of Eirik the Red, Thorstein makes the voyage to Vinland by himself, and it is only upon his return that the two marry.

According to the Saga, “ Thorstein had a farm and livestock in the western settlement at a place called Lysufjord ” and another man by the name of Thorstein ( whose wife in this version is named Sigrid ) owned a half-share on this farm.

After his death, Gurid moved back to Brattahlíð, where she married a merchant named Thorfinn Karlsefni, who is described in the Saga of Eirik the Red as being “ a man of good family and good means ” and “ a merchant of good repute .” According to " The Saga of the Greenlanders ," after their marriage, and at Gudrid ’ s urging, the two led an attempt to settle Vínland with sixty men, five women, and a cargo of various livestock ( while it is implied in " The Saga of Eirik the Red " that she accompanies him, Gudrid is never actually mentioned in the account of the journey ).

According to " The Saga of Eirik the Red ," the couple had another son named Thorbjorn.

According to " The Saga of Eirik the Red ," " Karlsefni and Gudrid had a son named Thorbjorn, whose daughter Thorunn was the mother of Bishop Bjorn.

According to the Icelandic sagas (" Eirik the Red's Saga " and the " Saga of the Greenlanders "— chapters of the Hauksbók and the Flatey Book ), the Norse started to explore lands to the west of Greenland only a few years after the Greenland settlements were established.

According to a paper by Erik Trinkaus and others, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January 2007, this finding suggests that the two groups interbred thousands of years ago.

According to Erik Sakkov, board member of Tallinn Airport, the future plans include expanding the runway by 600 – 700 metres to serve regular long-haul flights, also building of a brand-new taxiway, new storage facilities, a new point-to-point terminal and expansion of the existing passenger terminal, so it can serve arriving and departing passengers on two different levels.

According to the saga of Erik the Red, when Erik was exiled from Iceland he sailed west and pioneered Greenland.

According to a late 13th century legend, Erik undertook the so-called First Swedish Crusade to Finland together with the equally legendary Bishop Henry of Uppsala, conquering the country and building many churches there.

According to this definition the unification should be completed in 1210 when Erik Knutsson was crowned by the church, or perhaps in 1247 when the last separatist rising was defeated at Sparrsätra.

According to Erik Erikson ’ s " Eight Stages of Life " theory, the human personality is developed in a series of eight stages that take place from the time of birth and continue on throughout an individual ’ s complete life.

According to Dutch Volkskrant journalist Erik van de Berg, " Honsinger is someone who hasn't lost his childhood fantasy entirely.

According to Erik, on the same Larry King show, he and his older brother have not spoken to each other for more than ten years.

According to the legend, King Erik the Saint was slain while he attended the mass at the ecclesia Sancte trinitatis – Trinity church – at Mons Domini.

According to Erik Hornung in a 2006 book, the accession date of Ramesses VIII has been established by Amin Amer to an 8 month period between I Peret day 2 and I Akhet day 13.

According to Erik Stover, Red Bulls ' managing director at the time, Harrison Redevelopment Agency chairman Peter B. Higgins was " quite simply the reason that the New York Red Bulls have a new home in Harrison.

According to the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson development of basic trust is the first state psychosocial development occurring, or failing, during the first two years of life.

According to the two sagas, he was the son of an Erik who fought Harald Fairhair and who succeeded the brothers Björn at Hauge and Anund Uppsale:

* According to Hervarar saga, Refil was a son of the Swedish king Björn Ironside and the brother of its next king Erik Björnsson.

According to Erik Nilsson, Ras Dashen is the eastern peak of the rim of " an enormous volcano, the northern half of which is cut down about thousand metres by numerous ravines, draining into the Takkazzi River.

According to the Scribner Encyclopia of American Lives, Erik Barnouw was born in Den Haag in the Netherlands, the son of Adriaan ( a history teacher ), and Ann Eliza Barnouw ( who tutored English ).

According to legend, the triptych is one of five altars donated to Norwegian churches by princess Isabella of Austria after being escorted by Erik Valkendorf, Archbishop of Norway, in terrible weather en route to her wedding in Copenhagen with the Danish king Christian II in 1515.

According to Erik's old friend, the daroga ( the Persian-" daroga " was Erik's nickname for him ), the Punjab lasso that Erik wields is " curiously made from catgut " ( from the Leonard Wolf translation ); the only way to escape it is to keep one's hand raised to eye level, thus preventing the loop from closing.

According to a ringside report from Esteban Erik Stipnieks, " Maribel quickly won over the fans and dominated the fight.

According to Erik Wachtmeister, " members are people with large personal networks, frequent travel and highly active personality.