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.

In the Ynglinga Saga of Snorri Sturluson the entire story is told as follows: " Othin had two brothers.

Ynglinga saga is a legendary saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson about 1225.

Fróði (; ; Middle High German: Vruote ) is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasöngr.

* 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 ).

In the Ynglinga saga part of Heimskringla, Aðils, the king of Sweden, dies when he rides one of his horses around the dísarsálr at the time of Dísablót and he is thrown and brains himself on a rock.

Frigg is sometimes accused of infidelity to Odin, specifically in Ynglinga saga, Gesta Danorum and Lokasenna, where Loki accuses her of it.

Belief in the mare goes back to the Norse Ynglinga saga from the 13th century, but the belief is probably even older.

He is generally identified with the Swedish king Egil ( also Swedish Egill, Eigil ) who appears in Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegiae and in Ynglinga saga.

Ingjald is mentioned in the Ynglinga saga, Historia Norvegiæ, Hervarar saga, Upplendinga Konungum, Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar and Íslendingabók.

Snorri Sturluson gave an extensive account on the life of Ingjald in the Ynglinga saga which is part of the Heimskringla.

In Snorri's Ynglinga Saga in the Heimskringla, Skjöld's wife is the goddess Gefjön and the same account occurs in most, but not all, manuscripts of the Edda.

He is mentioned in the 12th century Gesta Danorum, and in 13th-century sources including Ynglinga saga, Nafnaþulur, Völsunga saga.

This Dan is father of Fridlef father of Frothi, in whom one recognizes Fridleif and his son Fróði mentioned often in Norse sources, the latter being, at least by parentage, the Peace-Fróði whom Snorri introduced in the early in the Ynglinga saga.

The following description is based on the account in Ynglinga saga, written in the 1220s by Snorri Sturluson.

At that time it had lost the first page, but the second ( the current beginning of the Ynglinga Saga ) starts Kringla heimsins, " the Earth's circle " of the Laing translation.

The Ynglinga saga tells that Fjölnir was the son of Freyr himself and the giantess Gerd, but he was the first of his house who was not to be deified.

In the Ynglinga saga it is related that she was first hired to kill the Swedish king Vanlade, by his wife Drífa.

However the Ynglinga saga says that Sölvi the Old who first cleared Sóleyar lived much later, making this Sölvi to be the father of a second Sölvi, the father of Halfdan Goldtooth ( Hálfdanr Gulltanni ), the father of Sólveig or Sölva who married Ólaf Woodcutter ( Ólafr Trételgja ).

In Scandinavian mythology ( Ynglinga saga and Gesta Danorum ), the first appearance of Frey was localised to Sweden and Old Uppsala, where he founded the Temple at Uppsala: