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Heimskringla, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorre Sturlason

Concerned with Norse wisdom of Heimskringla, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorre Sturlason
The Sagas included here are:

  1. Ynglinga Saga
  2. Halfdan the Black Saga
  3. Harald Harfager's Saga
  4. Hakon the Good's Saga
  5. Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
  6. King Olaf Trygvason's Saga
  7. Saga of Olaf Haraldson (St. Olaf)
  8. Saga of Magnus the Good
  9. Saga of Harald Hardrade
  10. Saga of Olaf Kyrre
  11. Magnus Barefoot's Saga
  12. Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf
  13. Saga of Magnus the Blind and of Harald Gille
  14. Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald
  15. Saga of Hakon Herdebreid ("Hakon the Broad-Shouldered")
  16. Magnus Erlingson's Saga
Heimskringla study page "Heimskringla" contains lots of information of how Scandinavia was christened in the often dark and brutal Viking Age (AD ca. 800-1066) and afterward. There is also raconteur-based information of earlier times still.
      The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway was written in Old Norse by the Icelandic historian and poet Snorre Sturlason (c.1179-1241) in AD 1225, approximately. Selected old works should help (some of) us onwards. The first parts of the work go back to mythological times for the Danes and Swedes and Norwegians.
      The texts that follow, were gathered from more than one source, yet they stem ultimately from the English translation by Samuel Laing (London, 1844). The work has been modernised and slightly corrected here. But very little, just a few trifles, has been added to the meaning of the main text. We hope you like the modernisation. - Tormod Kinnes

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