According to Grímnismál, the hall is the greatest of buildings and contains 540 rooms, located in Asgard, as are all the dwellings of the gods, in the kingdom of Þrúðheimr ( or Þrúðvangar according to Gylfaginning and Ynglinga saga ).

In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Hel is referred to, though never by name.

A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's taking of Dyggvi:

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.

In chapter 4 of Ynglinga saga, Njörðr is introduced in connection with the Æsir-Vanir War.

In chapter 8 of Ynglinga saga, the " historical " Odin is described as ordaining burial laws over his country.

Ynglinga saga, the first book of Heimskringla, first mentions a Yule feast in 840.

He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a detailed history of the Norwegian kings that begins in the legendary Ynglinga saga and continues to document much of early Norwegian history.

The Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga ( chapter 4 ) provides an Euhemerized account of the Æsir – Vanir War.

In chapter 8 of the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, Skaði appears in an euhumerized account.

Mímir is mentioned in chapters 4 and 7 of the saga Ynglinga Saga, as collected in Heimskringla.

According to the Ynglinga saga, king Domalde was sacrificed there in the hope of bringing greater future harvests and the total domination of all future wars.

In Ynglinga saga, along with Mímir, he went to the Vanir as a hostage to seal a truce after the Æsir-Vanir War.

Kvasir is mentioned in an euhemerized account of the origin of the gods in chapter 4 of Ynglinga saga, contained within Heimskringla.

In Ynglinga saga section of the same work, Snorri relates:

The Icelandic historian and poet Snorri Sturluson ( 1179 – 1241 ) wrote the following description of berserkers in his Ynglinga saga:

The kings of the saga of the Ynglinga family.

Some sources, such as Íslendingabók, Ynglinga saga and Historia Norwegiæ trace the foundation of the Swedish kingdom back in the last centuries BC.

In the Ynglinga saga and in Gesta Danorum, Frey is euhemerized as a king of Sweden.

In the Ynglinga saga, Yngvi-Frey reigned in succession to his father Njörd who in turn succeeded Odin.

Heyerdahl's intention was to prove the veracity of the account of Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century, about the origin of the Norse royal dynasties, and the pre-Christian Norse gods.

Heyerdahl tried to seek the origins of the Æsir, following the route set out by Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, from the Black Sea and the river Tanais ( referred to by Snorri Sturluson by the names Tanaís and Tanakvísl ) via Saxon homelands in northern Germany, Odense on Fyn, Denmark to Old Sigtuna, ancient Sweden.

( Ynglinga saga )

Especially, the story of Odin and the Aesir's emigration according to the Ynglinga saga is generally considered invalid by the official views and scholars.

The Ynglinga saga section of Snorri's Heimskringla and the Eddic poem Ragnarsdrápa tell a legend of how Gylfi was seduced by the goddess Gefjon to give her as much land as she could plow in one night.

For example, the Ynglinga saga tells us that Harald Redbeard, chief of Agðir, refused his daughter Åsa to Gudröd Halvdanson, on which event Gudröd invaded Agðir, killed Harald and his son Gyrd, and took Åsa whether she would or no.

* The Fróði of the Grottasöngr is said to be the son of Fridleif son of Skjöld in whose beer king Fjölnir drowned ( according to Ynglinga saga ).

Some kings ( e. g. Athisl / Adils, Hunding / Fjölnir, Halfdan, Sigurd Ring, Ragnar Lodbrok and Erik and Alrik ) are based on the same traditions as the West Norse Ynglingatal, Ynglinga saga and Historia Norwegiae.

He spoke of a notation made by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century historian-mythographer in Ynglinga Saga which relates that " Odin ( a Scandinavian god who was one of the kings ) came to the North with his people from a country called Aser.

Harald Grenski was the name of a later figure, the father of King Olaf II of Norway, and the Ynglinga saga and many other sources name Harald Red-beard as Ása's father.

* The Fróði who, according to Ynglinga saga and Gesta Danorum, was the father of Halfdan.

In the Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson describes her personality as follows ( Samuel Laing's translation ): Yrsa was not one of the slave girls, and it was soon observed that she was intelligent, spoke well, and in all respects was well behaved.

Snorri Sturluson relates in his Ynglinga saga that King Ingvar, Östen's son, was a great warrior who often spent time patrolling the shores of his kingdom fighting Danes and Estonian vikings ( Víkingr frá Esthland ).

The Ynglinga saga, a part of the Heimskringla relates that the viceroy of Fjädrundaland was named Ingvar and he had two sons, Alf and Agnar, who were of the same age as Ingjald.

According to both Ynglinga saga and Sögubrot, his homeland was Scania, but according to the Ynglinga saga, he had to flee Scania when his uncle Guðröðr of Scania had slain his father Halfdan the Valiant.

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 ).

Snorri's Ynglinga Saga relates that after the giantess Skaði broke off her marriage with Njörd, she " married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Sæming " from whom Jarl Hákon claimed descent.

Snorri Sturluson wrote in the Ynglinga saga that Haki had amassed a great force of warriors and sometimes plundered together with his brother Hagbard ( who himself was the hero of one of the most popular legends of ancient Scandinavia, see Hagbard and Signy ).

Hugleik or Ochilaik ( a namesake of Hygelac ) was a Swedish king of the House of Yngling, according to the Ynglinga saga.

The Ynglinga saga gives Halfdan ( in this work also son of a king named Fróði ) a brother named Fridleif and says both were great warriors but that Halfdan was the better of the two.

Fridleif ( Ynglinga saga ) was a son of Fróði of the Skjöldung ( Scylding ) lineage.

Halfdan Whiteshanks ( Old Norse: Hálfdan hvítbeinn ) was a mythical petty king in Norway, described in the Ynglinga saga.