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: The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga, which provides details on the descendants of Gór only, including information not found in the Hversu or Ættartölur.
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Hversu and account
In the related account in the Ættartolur (' Genealogies ') attached to Hversu Noregr byggdist, the name Skelfir appears instead of Yngvi in the list of Halfdan's sons.
In 1387 AD, Hversu Noregr byggðist (' How Norway was inhabited ') is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages.
The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga.
The Hversu account says further that Ægir ruled over the seas, Logi over fire, and Kári over wind.
This account cannot be reconiciled with the account in the Hversu and Orkneyinga saga without assuming multiple figures with the same names.
In the account called Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was inhabited ') in the Flatey Book, Snær is son of Jökul ( Jǫkull ' icicle, ice, glacier ') son of Kári.
Hversu Noregr byggðist () is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages, which survives only in the Flatey Book.
The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga, which gives a slightly different version of the story and provides details on the descendants of Gór only, including information not found in the Hversu or Ættartölur.
: Hversu Noregr byggðist (' How Norway was inhabited ') is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages.
The Haddingjar are otherwise known as two of the sons of Arngrim of which the fullest account is in Hervarar saga and are certainly not the Haddingjar spoken of by the Hversu.
The Hversu account probably indicates a version in which both Helgi and the two Haddingjar proper ( probably here the sons of Högni the Red ) were all three called Haddingjar and ruled in rotation.
In the medieval Orkneyinga saga and the account of Hversu Noregr byggðist (' How Norway was inhabited '), Fornjót is described as the King of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland.
The Hversu Noregr byggðist is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages.
The Hversu account then gives details of the descendants of Nór and of his brother Gór in the following section known as the Ættartölur (' Genealogies ', a. k. a. Fundinn Noregr, ' Founding of Norway ').
The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga.
Hversu and is
It is odd that the Hyndluljód here leaves out the only two names for which the Hversu provides descendants.
Hversu is only known to have survived in one single copy in Icelandic Flateyjarbók from 1387 CE, but may have been written earlier.
Hversu is more modest and only states that a descendant of Fornjót " ruled over Gothland, Kvenland ( Kænlandi ), and Finland ".
Nór's journey from Kvenland to Norway is missing from Hversu.
However, Hversu Noregr byggdist, dating from the former part of the 13th century, is by most opinions referring to the White Sea when it uses the term Gandvik.
Hversu Noregr Byggðist says he is the son of Hrœrekr slöngvanbaugi and the brother of Harald Wartooth.
Kári is father of a son who is named Frosti (' frost ') according to the Orkneyinga saga but named Jökul ( jǫkull: ' icicle, ice, glacier ') according to the Hversu.
Snow's son in Orkneyinga saga and Hversu is Thorri ' frozen-snow '.
Raum the Old ( Old Norse: Raumr inn gamli ) is a legendary king in Norway in the Hversu Noregr byggdist and in Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar.
Geirlaug rather than Thorlaug is the name of Tungu-Odd's mother in all accounts except for that of the Hversu.
And while the Höd of the Hversu is said to be father of a son named Höddbrodd, in Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( Book 3 ) Høtherus, the slayer of Balderus, is the son of Hothbrodus or Hothbroddus.
Hversu and by
The Ættartolur ( genealogies attached to the Hversu Noregr byggdist ) call this son of Halfdan by the name Næfil ( Næfill ) and relate that King Næfil was father of Heimar, father of Eynef ( Eynefr ), father of Rakni, father of Gjúki.
Hversu and Orkneyinga
The Yngling " Fairhair dynasty " lineage introduced in Hversu Noregr byggðist (" How Norway was settled ") and the Orkneyinga and Heimskringla sagas suggests a line of Rollo going back to Fornjót, the primeval " king " who " reigned over " Finland and Kvenland.
They are known as Hversu Noregr byggdist and Orkneyinga saga.
Parallel but not quite identical accounts of Nór the eponym of Norway appear in Fundinn Noregr (' Norway Found '), hereafter called F, which begins the Orkneyinga saga, and in Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was Settled '), hereafter called B, both found in the Flatey Book.
In the Orkneyinga saga and in Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was settled ')— both found in the Flatey Book — Fornjót appears as an ancient ruler of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland.
Otherwise this personage appears only in the Hversu and Orkneyinga saga accounts where Kári appears to be the heir to his father's kingdoms as in the Hversu Kári's descendants emerge also as rulers of Finland and Kvenland.
Hversu and saga
According to Hversu Noregr byggðist and Njáls saga, he was the son of Halfdan the Valiant ( also given as his father in the Ynglinga saga and the Hervarar saga ), son of Harald the Old, son of Valdar, son of Roar ( Hroðgar ) of the house of Skjöldung ( Scylding ).
According to Hversu, Njal's saga, the Lay of Hyndla and Sögubrot, Ivar had a daughter named Auðr the Deep-Minded.
Halfdan the Valiant ( Hálfdan snjalli ) ( 7th century ) was the legendary father of Ivar Vidfamne according to Hervarar saga, the Ynglinga saga, Njal's Saga and Hversu Noregr byggdist.
Whereas Hversu and Ynglinga saga don't inform about Halfdan's mother, Hervarar saga provides the information that she was Hild, the daughter of the Gothic king Heiðrekr Ulfhamr, the son of Angantyr who defeated the Huns.
The Hversu and the Hálf's saga do agree in their accounts of the descendants of Jösur.
Hversu and on
* Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was inhabited '), Appendix A in The Orkneyingers Saga ( Icelandic Sagas, and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen on the British Isles, Volume III ): Translator George W. Dasent ( 1894 ).
The Hversu goes on to say that Rúgálf son of Gard, the eponym of Rogaland, was father of Rögnvald ( Rögnvaldr ), the father of Ögvald ( Ǫgvaldr ) but gives no further descendants.
The Hversu notes further that another son of Grjótgard was Sigar ( Sigarr ), father of a daughter Signýjar who married Jarl Harald of Naumu Dale who fathered on her Herlaug, father of Grjótgard, father of Jarl Hákon, father of Jarl Sigurd, father of Jarl Hákon of Hlada.
Hversu and descendants
In 1387 AD, Hversu Noregr byggðist traces the royal descendants of the primeval Finnish / Kven king Fornjótr to the Swedish kings.
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