The single surviving page of the c. 1260 Kringla manuscript, known as the Kringla leaf (Kringlublaðið) is kept in the National and University Library of Iceland in Reykjavík.
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation:[ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) 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 (1178/79–1241) c. 1230. The title Heimskringla was first used in the 17th century, derived from the first two words of one of the manuscripts (kringla heimsins, "the circle of the world").
Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about Swedish and Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177. The exact sources of Snorri's work are disputed, but they include earlier kings' sagas, such as Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna and the 12th-century Norwegian synoptic histories and oral traditions, notably many skaldic poems. He explicitly names the now lost work Hryggjarstykki as his source for the events of the mid-12th century. Although Snorri used these and other materials collected during his trips to Norway and Sweden, he composed the sagas himself.
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the...
Christianity. Like the later Heimskringla, Ragnvald Rettilbeine is described as killed on Harald's orders. In Heimskringla he is burned alive by Eirik...
237. Hollander (Trans.), Heimskringla, p. 562. Hollander (Trans.), Heimskringla, p. 561. Hollander (Trans.), Heimskringla, p. 558. Larsen, p. 114. Stenton...
13th century from earlier traditional sources; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, composed by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century; in several Sagas of...
murder of a father. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Heimskringla/Harald Harfager's Saga#Halfdan Haleg's Death. There are two sources that...
the Prose Edda (written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), in Heimskringla (also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), and in stanzas...
13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, composed in the 13th century. In both the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda...
unified Norway. According to Heimskringla and Fagrskinna, Halfdan was the son of the Yngling King Gudrød the Hunter. Heimskringla also names his mother, as...
ISBN 9780823257836 Finnur Jónsson, ed. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning, at heimskringla.no. Finnur Jónsson, ed. pdfs of Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning photographic...
Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg, and Snorri Sturluson's 13th-century Heimskringla. Conflicting accounts of Sweyn's later life also appear in the Encomium...
gratitude. In Old Norse sources, the clan figure prominently in the Heimskringla and in Sögubrot, where Hjörvard and his son Hjörmund belong to it. It...
Universitetsforlaget. Heimskringla, Olav the Saint's Saga, Chapter 81 Heimskringla, Harald Fairhair's Saga, Chapter 14 Heimskringla, Harald Fairhair's Saga...
what is today known about Norse mythology and alliterative verse, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in...
evidence correlating to her story as they describe her. She is reported by Heimskringla to have been wife of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, sought as wife by...
13th century from earlier traditional sources), the Prose Edda, the Heimskringla (both by Snorri Sturluson) and the Njáls saga (one of the Sagas of Icelanders)...
several times in the sagas that make up Heimskringla. In the Ynglinga saga, the first section of Heimskringla, an euhemerised account of the origin of...
13th century from earlier traditional material; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century; in the poetry of skalds; and on an...
1225, Snorri Sturluson wrote Olav Kyrres saga about King Olaf in the Heimskringla. Olaf was a son of King Harald Hardrada and Tora Torbergsdatter. Olaf...
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