Volume 1 — A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SAGAS QUOTED IN THE VIKING AGE, INCLUDING THE PERIODS WITH WHICH THEY DEAL.
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Name of Saga. Century with which they deal.
The Earlier Edda These are Mythical, and no accurate date can be affixed to them.
The Later Edda
Fórnaldarsögur contains:—
Völsunga Partly Mythical.
Hervara
Thorstein Vikingsson’s (father of Fridthjof)
Ketil Hæng’s sons
Grim Lodinkinnis’
Fridthjof’s
Hrolf Kraki’s VI.(?)
Half’s VI.(?)
Sögubrot VI.-VII.(?)
Ragnar Lodbrok’s VIII.(?)
Ragnar Lodbrok’s Sons’ VIII.(?)
Norna Gest’s No date can be assigned to these.
Gautrek’s
Orvar Odd’s
Herraud and Bosi’s
Egil and Asmund’s
Hjalmter and Ölver’s
Göngu Hrelf’s
An Bosveigi’s
⁂ The above dates are all more or less conjectural, and the Sagas are chiefly valuable as illustrating manners and customs.
Egil’s Middle of IX. to end of X.
Njala’s End of X. to beginning of XI.
Laxdæla IX.-XI. (886–1030).
Eyrbyggja IX.-XI. (890–1031).
Islandinga Sögur contains:—
I. Hord’s Saga X. (950–990).
II. Hœnsa Thoris’ Saga X.-XI.(990–1010).
III. Gunnlaug Ormstunga’s Saga X.-XI.
IV. Viga Styr’s Saga X.-XI.
V. Kjalnesinga Saga IX.-XI.
VI. Gisli Súrsson X.
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Droplaugarsona Saga X.
Hrafnkel Freysgodi X.
Bjorn Hitdæla Kappi First half of XI.
Kormak’s X.
Fornsögur contains:—
I. Vatnsdæla Saga IX.-XI. (c. 870–1000).
II. Floamanna Saga X. (c. 985–990).
III. Hallfred’s Saga End of X.
Gretti’s Saga X.-XI. (Grettir died 1031).
Viga Glum X.
Vallaljots Beginning of XI.
Vapnfirdinga IX.-X.
Thorskfirdinga, or Gullthóri’s X. (c. 900–930).
Heidar Viga (continuation of Viga Styr’s) First half of XI.
Fœreyinga X.-XI. (c. 960–1040).
Finnbogi Rami’s X.
Eirek the Red
Thátt of Styrbjörn (nephew of Eirek the Victorious, who fell at the battle of Fyrisvellir, 983) X.
Landnama IX.-X. (the colonisation of Iceland).
Islendinga bok IX.-XI. (c. 874–1118).
Ljosvetninga 990–1050.
Vemund’s Saga End of X. century.
Svarfdœla First half of X. century.
Biskupa Sögur contains:—
Kristni Saga X.-XII. (c. 980–1120).
Sturlunga XII.-XIII. (c. 1120–1284).
Fornmanna Sögur contains:—
I. Sagas of Kings of Norway
II. Jomsvikinga Saga X.
III. Knytlinga Saga XI.-XII.
IV. Fagrskinna (short history of Kings of Norway from Halfdan the Black to Sverrir) IX.-XII.
Heimskringla Saga contains the Ynglinga Saga, the great work of Snorri Sturluson Written in first half of XIII. cent., giving history of the Kings of Norway and Sweden from Odin down to 1177.
Flateyjarbok contains lives of Kings of Norway, etc.
Fostbrædra Saga XI. (c. 1015–30).
Konung’s Skuggsja XIII.
Rimbegla XIV.
Orkneyinga IX.-XIII. (c. 870–1206).
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