A contradictory account in the Knýtlinga saga ( 13th century ), reports Harthacnut buried in the city of Morstr, alongside his half-brother Harold Harefoot and their father Cnut.

A contradictory account in the Knýtlinga saga ( 13th century ) reports Harold buried in the city of Morstr, alongside his half-brother Harthacnut and their father Cnut.

The Knýtlinga saga ( 13th century ) considers Harold Harefoot to be the oldest son of Cnut and Emma of Nomandy.

Isaac Kleiner, from the Half-Life saga as well as Professor Harold MacDougal from Red Dead Redemption, are examples in videogames.

* A saga of King Magnus the Good and King Harald Hardrada of the Morkinskinna type

According to the Hervarar saga, he ruled only for a short time, and was married to Ingigerd, the daughter of Harald Hardrada.

The saga narrates the contests of the kings, the establishment of the kingdom of Norway, Viking expeditions to various European countries, straying as far afield as Palestine in the saga of King Sigurd the Crusader.

In a saga, Snorri Sturluson narrates about Kettil Jamti, a son of Anund Jarl from Sparbu in Trøndelag who fled from Norway when Harald Fairhair united the country with brute force in the 9th century.

The saga follows Egill through the various stages of his life, most of which are surrounded by battle and Egill virtually narrates his own life story with his frequent segments of poetry.

Neither mentioned grapes, and the Malmesbury work specifically states that little grows there but grass and trees, which reflects the saga descriptions of the area round the main Norse expedition base.

That is the last Vinland expedition recorded in the saga.

This is the last Vinland expedition recorded in the saga.

A second expedition in 1102 saw incursions into Ireland ; the Heimskringla saga reports that he obtained Muirchertach Ua Briain's daughter Blathmin Ní Briain in marriage to his young son, Sigurd, whom he then left in nominal charge of the isles.

In Hrólfr Kraki's saga, Helgi dies when more or less trying to save her from Eagdils, while the Skjöldunga saga presents her marriage with Eadgils as a happier one, and Halga died in a different war expedition.

Harald Hårfagres saga describes an expedition he led up the Gudbrandsdal, and north over Dovrefjeld on his way to success at the battle of Orkadal.

The saga is characterized by a distinct interest in old lore, rituals, pagan practices and superstitions. The saga includes several references to the colonization of Greenland and one reference to an expedition to Vinland.

This story is retold in the Eyrbyggja saga but here it is Ketill rather than Harald who led the expedition, and after the initial victory the former retained the islands as " personal domain " rather than bringing them under Harald's rule.

The saga tells about a future " last battle at the birch tree " in which a " huge army from the East " is beaten decisively by the " West ".

8 of the Hrafnkels saga: the chieftain Hrafnkell, who lived in the East Fjords and rather close to the northern end of Sprengisandur, prefers to travel to the Alþingi by going south along the shore of the island-his route is much longer and slower, but it goes all the way through inhabited regions.

The Hervarar saga speaks about Brávelli í eystra Gautlandi ( i. e. Bråvalla in East Götaland ), and in Sögubrot af Nokkrum the battle is said to have taken place south of Kolmården which separated Sweden ( i. e. Svealand ) from East Götaland and where Bråviken is located: ... Kolmerkr, er skilr Svíþjóð ok Eystra-Gautland ... sem heitir Brávík.

* Ring son of Gauti ( king of East Götaland in Bósa saga ok Herrauds )

* Herrauðr, son of Ring ( king of East Götaland in Bósa saga ok Herrauds )

It is probably the last one written, perhaps from about 1500, probably by an author in the East Fjords, and is a sequel to Hrafnkels saga.

Settlements from that era have been found in southwest Greenland and eastern Canada, and sagas such as Eiríks saga rauða and Grænlendinga saga speak of the settlers ' exploits.

According to Jan Strnad's introduction to Denz, " The saga of Den's exploits ... lusty and brawling, brimming with magic, intrigue, horror and betrayal ... spanned generations and filled many exotic volumes.

# The exploits of Hrafnkell's descendants appear in Hrafnkels sagas sequel, Fljótsdæla saga.

Only about the following five names of sons can be confirmed from contemporary skaldic poems ( with saga claims in parenthesis ), while the full number of sons remains unknown:

Although he has his own saga in Heimskringla, it lacks any skaldic verse, which is normally used by Snorri as supporting evidence and this, combined with its rather legendary character, leads historians to be wary of seeing much veracity in it.

Darraðarljóð is a skaldic poem in Old Norse found in chapter 156 of Njáls saga.

The Clone Wars are a series of fictional galactic battles in George Lucas's science fiction saga Star Wars.

* Gizur 4th century, who helps the Goths during the battles with the Huns in Hervarar saga ( see Hlöd ).

In the Hervarar saga, there is an account of Gothic legendary history and of battles with the Huns, and it may have been composed by Geats in southern Sweden, who have a prominent place in the poetry .< ref > Pritsak, Omeljan.

The saga is about Hrómundr serving king Óláf Warrior-King ( Óláfr konungr liði ) and Hrómund's battles with the berserker Hröngvið and as well as the undead witch-king Þráinn, a draugr ( he was a former king of Gaul, Valland ).

It tells that this Skjöld had a saga of his own telling of his battles with a Herman.

This saga is a splendid epic in prose, and is also of particular relevance to the history of England.

The Knýtlinga saga treats the death of Harthacnut as the end of an ancient line of kings, and notes that he was the last Danish king to rule over England.

Howatch followed a similar theme in her vast saga, The Wheel of Fortune, where the story of the Godwin family of Oxmoon in Gower, South Wales, is in fact a re-creation in a modern form of the story of the Plantagenet family of Edward III of England, the modern characters being created from those of his eldest son Edward of Woodstock ( The Black Prince ) and his wife Joan of Kent, John of Gaunt and his mistress and then wife, Katherine Swynford, Richard II ( son of Edward of Woodstock ), Henry IV ( son of John of Gaunt ) and Henry IV's eldest son King Henry V. Again the mansion represents the throne.

According to the Heimskringla and the Hervarar saga, Ivar was also the king of Norway, Denmark, Saxony and parts of England.

This was after a long transfer saga in which Stiliyan Petrov was linked to almost every mid-table side in England.

In Ragnar Lodbrok's saga, there is an interesting prequel to the Battle of Hastings: it is told that before Ivar died in England, he ordered that his body be buried in a mound on the English Shore, saying that so long as his bones guarded that section of the coast, no enemy could invade there successfully.

The sagas Heimskringla and Orkneyinga saga relates that at some point in the early 1150s, king Eystein went on a campaign to Scotland and England.

In 1825, the fantasy genre developed when the Swedish literary work Frithjof's saga, which was based on the Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, became successful in England and Germany.

Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four-novel family saga set in wartime England: The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off.

Her " Mantlemass Chronicles " is a family saga set in 15th to 17th-century England.

Saxo holds she was the daughter of Æthelred, King of England ( usually identified with Æthelred of Wessex ), while Jómsvíkinga saga and Snorri's Heimskringla say her father was a king or jarl of Jutland or Holstein called Harald Klak.