Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar
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Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar or the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason can refer to several different kings' sagas
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In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
's Tales of a Wayside Inn
there is a cycle of poems called The Saga of King Olaf
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Kings' sagas
The kings' sagas are Norse sagas which tell of the lives of Scandinavian kings. They were composed in the 12th to 14th centuries in Iceland and Norway....
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- Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Oddr SnorrasonOddr SnorrasonThe Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar of Oddr Snorrason whose name is also sometimes Anglicized as Odd Snorrason was a Latin royal biography attributed to a 12th century Icelandic Benedictine monk at the Þingeyrar monastery ....
- Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Gunnlaugr LeifssonGunnlaugr LeifssonGunnlaugr Leifsson was an Icelandic scholar, writer and poet. He was a Benedictine monk at the Þingeyrar monastery in the north of Iceland.-Biography :Gunnlaugr composed a Latin biography of King Óláfr Tryggvason...
- Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar in HeimskringlaHeimskringlaHeimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ca. 1230...
- Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mestaÓláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mestaÓláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta or The Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvasonis one of the kings' sagas, an extended biography of King Óláfr Tryggvason....
also known as Mesta or the Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason - Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar in FlateyjarbókFlateyjarbókThe Flatey Book, is an important medieval Icelandic manuscript. It is also known as GkS 1005 fol. and by the Latin name Codex Flateyensis.- Description :...
(a version of Mesta)
In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
's Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.-Overview:The poems in the collection are told by a group of adults in the tavern of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 20 miles from Cambridge, and a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College...
there is a cycle of poems called The Saga of King Olaf
The Saga of King Olaf
"The Saga of King Olaf" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1863, as the largest part of his work Tales of a Wayside Inn. The poem is written in twenty-two parts and follows the adventures of King Olaf of Norway, spurred to avenge his slain father and reclaim his...
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