At the end of the Heimskringla saga Hákonar saga góða, the poem Hákonarmál by the 10th century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir is presented.

In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egils saga that date from the 9th and 10th century respectively.

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

Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177.

Heimskringla consists of several chapters, each one individually called a saga, which can be literally translated as ' tale '.

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.

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.

These include the late 12th-century Norwegian synoptics – Historia Norwegiæ ( perhaps c. 1170 ), Theodoricus monachus ' Historia de antiquitate regum Norwagiensium ( c. 1180 ) and Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum ( c. 1190 ) – and the later Icelandic kings ' sagas Orkneyinga saga ( c. 1200 ), Fagrskinna ( c. 1225 ), the Heimskringla ascribed to Snorri Sturluson ( c. 1230 ), Egils saga ( 1220 x 1240 ) and Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta ( c. 1300 ).

The account of Heimskringla, which claims that Harald had enjoyed the company of eleven consorts before Ragnhildr, and that of Egils saga are at variance with the suggestion elsewhere that Eric was one of the oldest ( Fagrskinna ), if not the eldest son of Harald ( Historia Norwegiæ, Ágrip ).

According to Heimskringla and Egils saga, Eric spent much of his childhood in fosterage with the hersir Thórir son of Hróald.

Most subsequent accounts name her father Ozur, nicknamed either Toti “ teat ” ( Egils saga, Fagrskinna, Heimskringla ) or lafskegg “ dangling beard ” ( Ágrip, Fagrskinna ), a man who hailed from the northern province of Hålogaland ( Egils saga, Heimskringla ).

However, a number of later sagas such as the Separate Saga of St. Olaf ( c. 1225 ), Heimskringla, Egils saga and Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta assert that Eirik sailed directly to Orkney, where he took the joint jarls into vassalage, collected forces and so set up a base which enabled him to organise several expeditions on overseas territory.

Snorri Sturluson gives an extensive account of Olaf in Heimskringla, ( c. 1230 ), using Oddr Snorrason's saga as his main source.

A 19th century illustration for Harald Hardraada saga, Heimskringla

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.

Valkyries are attested in the Poetic Edda, a book of poems compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla ( by Snorri Sturluson ), and Njáls saga, a Saga of Icelanders, all written in the 13th century.

The factual content of the work tends to be deemed more credible as it discusses more recent times, as the distance in time between the events described and the composition of the saga was shorter, allowing traditions to be retained in a largely accurate form, and because in the twelfth century the first contemporary written sources begin to emerge in Norway.

Additionally, Sleipnir is mentioned in a riddle found in the 13th century legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, in the 13th century legendary saga Völsunga saga as the ancestor of the horse Grani, and book I of Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, contains an episode considered by many scholars to involve Sleipnir.

One, Egils saga, is believed by scholars to have been written by Snorri Sturluson, a descendant of the saga's hero, but this remains uncertain.

There are two written sources on the origin of the name, in The Book of Icelanders ( Íslendingabók ), a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history from the 12th century, and in the medieval Icelandic saga, The Saga of Eric the Red ( Eiríks saga rauða ), which is about the Norse settlement in Greenland and the story of Erik the Red in particular.

The Orkneyinga saga, written c. 1200, does speak of Eirik ’ s presence in Orkney and his alliance with the joint jarls Arnkel and Erland, sons of Torf-Einarr, but not until his rule in Northumbria was challenged by Olaf ( Amlaíb Cuarán ).

The Norse saga was written around 1230 ( three centuries after the events they record ) by an unknown Icelandic author and, as was generally the case with Icelandic language writing of this period, the saga is as much a fictional story as a historic document.

Among written sources which the author likely used are Laxdœla saga, Eyrbyggja saga and Ljósvetninga saga as well as the lost sagas Brjáns saga and Gauks saga Trandilssonar.

More recently, Pamela Sacred perpetuated the genre through La Voie de l ' ange, a continuation of The Diary of Anne Frank written in French by a fictional character from her Venetian Cell hypertext saga.

The saga is considered the most detailed and reliable of all sagas concerning Norwegian kings, building on both written archive material and oral information from individuals who had been close to Haakon.

It can already be found in the form Eikundarsund in the Norse saga of Olav the Holy, written by Icelandic author Snorri Sturlasson in the 13th century.

Ballowa is also mentioned in the Thidrekssaga, a chivalric saga written in the mid-13th century in Norway.

Although the Henry VI trilogy may not have been written in chronological order, the three plays are often grouped together with Richard III to form a tetralogy covering the entire Wars of the Roses saga, from the death of Henry V in 1422 to the rise to power of Henry VII in 1485.

Broun stated that “ the substance of any two Zane Grey books could be written upon the back of a postage stamp .” T. K. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga, “ a battle of passions with one another and with the will, a struggle of love and hate, or remorse and revenge, of blood, lust, honor, friendship, anger, grief — all of a grand scale and all incalculable and mysterious .” But he goes on to criticize Grey ’ s writing, “ His style, for example, has the stiffness which comes from an imperfect mastery of the medium.

Tolkien also made use of the fornyrðislag in his narrative poem The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, based upon the poetry of the Elder Edda and written to retell the Norse saga of Sigurd and the fall of the Niflungs.

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

These finds appear to confirm the saga claim that some of the Vinland exploration ships came from Iceland and that they ventured down the east coast of the new land.

" This saga is set soon after Iceland converted to Christianity and identifies Yule with Christmas: " No Christian man is wont to eat meat this day Eve, because that on the morrow is the first day of Yule ," says she, " wherefore must men first fast today.

Named after English explorer William Baffin, it is likely that the island was known to Pre-Columbian Norse of Greenland and Iceland and may be the location of Helluland, spoken of in the Icelandic sagas ( the Saga of Erik the Red ( Eiríks saga rauða ) and the Grœnlendinga saga ).

In Iceland, the tales of the Völsung cycle were expanded with native Scandinavian folklore, including that of Helgi Hundingsbane, which originally appears to have been part of a separate tradition, that of the Ylfings, and form the material of the epic poems in the Elder Edda and of Völsunga saga, which preserves material from lost poems.

The Grœnlendinga saga (' Greenlanders Saga ') tells that one year he sailed to Iceland to visit his parents as usual, only to find that his father had gone with Eric the Red to Greenland.

In this way, Laxness believed that Njáls saga attested to the presence of a " very strong heathen spirit ", antithetical to Christianity, in 13th century Iceland.

At this point the saga recounts the conversion of Iceland to Christianity in AD 999.

In 1872 he travelled to Iceland to see the land of the Icelandic sagas as he was a great admirer of Njals saga.

This was followed in 1861-1862 with a visit to Iceland, where he was hailed in Reykjavík as one of the saga lovers who had strengthened ties between the English and Norse.

The area is the scene of one of the most famous sagas of Iceland, Njál's saga.

The story begins on May 1863, in the Lidenbrock house in Hamburg, with Professor Lidenbrock rushing home to peruse his latest purchase, an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga written by Snorri Sturluson (" Heimskringla "; the chronicle of the Norwegian kings who ruled over Iceland ).

A Legendary saga or Fornaldarsaga ( literally, a tale of times past ) is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders ' sagas, takes place before the colonization of Iceland.

The sagas were probably all written in Iceland, from about the middle of the 13th century to about 1400, although it is possible that some may be of a later date, such as Hrólfs saga kraka.

His travel writings, accounts of walking tours through wild landscapes with literary associations, date mainly from the years of his second marriage ( 1932 – 1939 ): a book on a 1933 tour of Greece, From Olympus to the Styx ( 1934 ), a travelogue on a 1934 tour of the saga sites of Iceland, and diary-entries on visits to Norway, Ireland, Scotland, France.

The saga is categorised as one of the Sagas of Icelanders ( Íslendingasögur ) all of which were written in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries and are fairly realistic accounts of events taking place between the ninth and the eleventh century in Iceland.

But in Hálfs saga, King Hjör who warred against Víkar is father of King Hjörleif, father of Hálf, father of Hjör, father of Geirmund Hellskin ( Geirmundr heljarskinn ) a contemporary of King Harald Fairhair who settled in Iceland, indicating roughly four generations from Vikar's time to Harald Fairhair's time.

Hrafnkels saga spans a large part of Iceland

The story revolves around the lives and times of the residents of the Fljótsdalur region in Iceland, including Helgi Ásbjarnarson and Helgi and Grímr, sons of Droplaug, a pair of brothers who have their own saga, Droplaugarsona saga.

Ásmundar saga kappabana is the saga of Asmund the Champion-Killer, a legendary saga from Iceland, first attested in the manuscript Stockholm, Royal Library, Holm.