Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

To complicate the matter, Heimskringla and other Sagas also have Sweyn marrying Eric's widow, but she is distinctly another person in these texts, by name of Sigrid the Haughty, whom Sweyn only marries after Gunhild, the Slavic princess who bore Cnut, has died.

Heimdallr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; in the poetry of skalds ; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in England.

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings ' sagas.

The first part of the Heimskringla is rooted in Norse mythology ; as it advances, fable and fact all curiously intermingle, and it terminates in factual history.

Valhalla is mentioned in euhemerized form and as an element of remaining Norse pagan belief in Heimskringla.

Norse sources of the high medieval period, most prominently Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, also give a Polish princess as Cnut's mother, whom they call Gunhild and a daughter of Burislav, the king of Vindland.

The name Gandalf is found in at least one more place in Norse myth, in the semihistorical Heimskringla, which briefly describes Gandalf Alfgeirsson, a legendary Norse king from Eastern Norway and rival of Halfdan the Black.

According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, he was named Magnus ( Magnús in Old Norse ) by Sigvatr Þórðarson, his father's Icelandic skald, after Charlemagne, Carolus Magnus in Latin.

* Heimskringla in Old Norse

Accounts of the symbel are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf ( lines 489-675 and 1491 – 1500 ), Dream of the Rood and Judith, Old Saxon Heliand, and the Old Norse Lokasenna as well as other Eddic and Saga texts, such as in the Heimskringla account of the funeral ale held by King Sweyn, or in the Fagrskinna.

Ynglinga saga is the first part of Snorri's history of the ancient Norse kings, the Heimskringla.

The Heimskringla and other Norse sources mention that in the late 990s Eiríkr Hákonarson of Norway raided the coast and set the town ablaze.

The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center in Norse paganism once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala ( Swedish " Old Uppsala "), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.

In the Ynglinga saga compiled in Heimskringla, Snorri presents a euhemerized origin of the Norse gods and rulers descending from them.

The nineteenth-century translation of the Norse saga the Heimskringla, published by Samuel Laing in 1844, included a verse by Óttarr svarti, that looks very similar to the nursery rhyme:

It contains mostly sagas of the Norse kings as found in the Heimskringla, specifically the sagas about Olaf Tryggvason, St. Olaf, Sverre, Hakon the Old, Magnus the Good, and Harald Hardrada.

Eystein Halfdansson ( Old Norse: Eysteinn Hálfdansson ) was the son of Halfdan Hvitbeinn of the House of Yngling according to Heimskringla.

Halfdan the Mild ( Old Norse: Hálfdan hinn mildi ) was the son of king Eystein Halfdansson, of the House of Yngling and he succeeded his father as king, according to Heimskringla.

In Old Norse sources, the clan figure prominently in the Heimskringla and in Sögubrot, where Hjörvard and his son Hjörmund belong to it.

The name is first recorded in Old Norse literature as Ullarakr ( the late twelfth century in the case of Krákumál, and 1225 in the case of Heimskringla ).

* Snorre Sturlason, The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol.

Hålogaland figures extensively in the Norse sagas, and in the Heimskringla, especially the Ynglinga Saga and Háleygjatal.

Norse sagas in which Augvald is depicted includes the Flateyjarbok, the Saga of Olav Tryggvason ( from both Heimskringla and Oddr Snorrason ), and the Saga of Half & His Heroes.

According to the Norse Heimskringla and Orkneyinga sagas, Rögnvald had little regard for his youngest son Einarr because Einarr's mother was a slave.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

* Sturluson, Snorri, Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, tr.

Njörðr appears in or is mentioned in three Kings ' sagas collected in Heimskringla ; Ynglinga saga, the Saga of Hákon the Good and the Saga of Harald Graycloak.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, translated Lee M. Hollander.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

* Sturluson, Snorri, Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, tr.

* Sturluson, Snorri, Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, tr.

The conversion of Hedemark or Hedmark to Christianity is mentioned in the Heimskringla ( The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway ) by Snorri Sturluson.

Dovre is mentioned in the Heimskringla ( The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway ) by Snorri Sturluson.

The area is first mentioned in the written chronicle of the Heimskringla ( The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway ) by Snorri Sturluson.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway.

1015-Gudbrandsdalen is mentioned extensively in the Heimskringla ( Chronicle of the Kings of Norway ) by Snorri Sturluson.