Also, the medieval sagas contain accounts of uniting petty kingdoms under a single king through actual combat.

* Harald Fairhair, remembered in the medieval sagas and thus commonly revered in popular histories as the first king of all Norway, who conquered and ruled the whole extent of medieval Norway from 870 – 930.

Since in the Norse sagas the king of Vindland is always Burislav, this is reconcilable with the assumption that her father was Mieszko ( not his son Bolesław ).

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.

It is consequently said that in the Norse sagas, he was identified with a Swedish king Ragnar ( 770-785 ), the son of Sigurd Ring.

The first Norwegian king to have adopted Christianity was, according to the sagas, Harald Fairhair's son, King Haakon the Good ( c. 934 – 961 ).

Distinct from the king of Norway of the Norse sagas, a member of the Fairhair dynasty, the historical Eric of Northumbria has recently been argued to have actually belonged to the Uí Ímair ( House of Ivar ), a distinct dynasty long established in the British Isles by the time of his rule.

This appears to match with independent tradition from Norwegian synoptic histories and Icelandic sagas, which are explicit in identifying Eric of Northumbria as a son of the Norwegian king Harald ( I ) Fairhair.

While Eirik's mother remains anonymous in the synoptic histories ( Ágrip ) and most of the Icelandic sagas, the Heimskringla ( c. 1230 ) claims that she was Ragnhildr, daughter of Eric, king of ( South ) Jutland.

He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken ( Vingulmark and Ranrike ), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway.

One of the sagas claims that he sailed for Norway, and greatly impressed the Norwegian king and his court, managing to sway a decidedly unenthusiastic Harald, who had just concluded a long and inconclusive war with Denmark, into raising a levy to take the throne of England.

This Burizlaf, however, may be Svyatopolk ( whose troops were commanded by the Polish king Boleslaus I ; the latter name is also rendered as Burizlaf in some sagas ) as well as Boris.

As early as the 1st century, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the order of succession to the later historic kings of Sweden, before King Eric the Victorious ( died 995 ), is only known by what is accounted for in the historically controversial Norse sagas ( see Mythical kings of Sweden and Semi-legendary kings of Sweden ).

Burislav, Burisleif, Burysław ( died 1008 ) is the name of a mythical Wendish king from Scandinavian sagas who is said to rule over Wendland.

Sigurd Hring ( Old Norse: Sigurðr hringr ( Hringr meaning ' Ring ')) ( ca 750 ) was a legendary Swedish and Danish king mentioned in many old Scandinavian sagas.

Styrbjörn the Strong ( Old Norse Styrbjörn Sterki ) ( died c. 985 ) was, according to late Norse sagas, the son of the Swedish king Olof, and the nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious, who defeated and killed Styrbjörn at the Battle of Fyrisvellir.

The Battle of Brávellir or the Battle of Bråvalla was a legendary battle that is described in the Norse sagas as taking place on the Brávellir between Sigurd Ring, king of Sweden and the Geats of West Götaland, and his uncle Harald Wartooth, king of Denmark and the Geats of East Götaland.

Gudrød the Hunter ( Old Norse: Guðrǫðr veiðikonungr, Norwegian: Gudrød Veidekonge ), also known as the Magnificent ( Old Norse: enn gǫfugláti, Norwegian: den gjeve ), is a legendary character portrayed in the Norse sagas as a Norwegian petty king in the early 9th century.

According to the sagas, he was the father of Halfdan the Black, and thus the grandfather of Harald Fairhair, the first king of unified Norway.

Styrbjorn's wife in the sagas, Thyra, was the daughter of Harold Bluetooth, king of Denmark and Norway.

The sagas, such as the Hervarar saga, contain extensive information on this dynasty for as many as 10 generations, but although, some of the 9th century kings are held to be historical, modern Swedish historiography begins it with the late 10th c. king Eric the Victorious.

The king Björn, who was the father of Eric the Victorious, according to the sagas, is not accepted as historical by critical historians, unlike another 10th century king named Emund Eriksson who appears in the work of Adam of Bremen.

According to the sagas Morkinskinna and Heimskringla, Inge ’ s infirmity stemmed from having been carried into battle by one of his guardians during a battle in 1137: “... his back was knotted into a hump, and the one foot was shorter than the other ; and he was besides so infirm that he could scarcely walk as long as he lived .” s: Heimskringla / Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald # Of Sigurd Slembidjakn.

According to the sagas, Eystein and Sigurd had plotted to strip Inge of his royal title and divide his share of the kingdom between them.

The main sources to Inge ’ s reign are the kings ’ sagas Heimskringla, Fagrskinna, Morkinskinna and Ágrip.

According to the sagas, Eystein and Sigurd had plotted to strip Inge of his royal title and divide his share of the kingdom between them.

The sagas draw a rather negative picture of both Eystein and his brother Sigurd, generally choosing to portray Inge as the just ruler of the three brothers.

The sagas deal with the reigns of the birkebeiner kings Haakon Sverresson, Guttorm Sigurdsson and Inge Baardsson, and the bagler kings Erling Steinvegg and Philippus Simonsson.

Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do priests and pilgrims coming from all over Europe to St. Olaf's grave in Trondheim.

The sagas do not say when Augvald lived, but an early suggestion by Torfæus placed Augvald in the 3rd century AD.

In some ways this marks a return to the old idea of oral preservation of the sagas, but the folklorists do not necessarily focus on historical accuracy.

Other clues appear to place the main settlement farther south, such as the mention of a mild winter and the reports in both sagas of grapes being found nearby.

No contemporary sources mention Halfdan, and the details of his life that are provided by later kings ' sagas are considered semi-legendary by modern historians.

The only medieval sources which mention Freydís are the two Vinland sagas, believed to be composed in the 13th century but purporting to describe events around 1000.

The outcome of this confrontation is uncertain, as both sides claim victory in their respective chronicles and sagas and the only independent source of the war fails to mention the battle at all.

There are also no other Icelandic sagas or old Norwegian sources that would mention " Finland " in a Norwegian context.

The sagas specifically mention linden wood for shield construction, although finds from graves shows mostly other timbers, such as fir, alder and poplar.

Several sagas mention Serkland: Ynglinga saga, Sörla saga sterka, Sörla þáttr, Saga Sigurðar Jórsalafara and Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis.

The Icelandic sagas mention a wife and two sons to Ragnvald Ulfsson but none are identical with Stenkil or his mother Astrid.

Their unity is in any case questionable, as they have been reconstructed from fragments in the Kings ' sagas, where they are attributed to more than one author.

Njáls saga, like the other sagas of Icelanders, must be considered anonymous-its author is not mentioned in any medieval source.