- A
legendary saga or
fornaldarsaga (literally, "story/history of the
ancient era") is a
Norse saga that,
unlike the Icelanders' sagas,
takes place before...
- Point") is a
legendary hero
about whom an
anonymous Icelander wrote a
fornaldarsaga in the
latter part of the 13th century. Örvar-Odds saga, the Saga of...
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creature uses its own vomit-like chumming-bait to
gather prey-fish. In the
Fornaldarsaga, the
hafgufa is
reputed to
consume even
whales or
ships and men, though...
- and sources, but
bases itself more so on
literary sources, such as
fornaldarsaga Ragnars saga loðbrókar,
itself more
legend than fact, and Old Norse...
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fornladarsaga Sögubrot af
nokkurum fornkonungum í Dana- ok Svíaveldi,
fornaldarsaga Oláfs saga helga,
konungasaga Edda,
Snorri Sturlusson, Skaldskáparmál...
- Überliefern im
mittelalterlichen Skandinavien nach d.
Zeugnis von
Fornaldarsaga u.
eddischer Dichtung (in German). Wachholtz. p. 85. ISBN 9783529033131...
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Written in the last half of the 13th
century an
anonymous Icelandic fornaldarsaga,
describes the
attempts of Örvar-Oddr and his son
Vignor to
track down...
- name who is
hired by the king to
rescue a princess. It is
based on a
fornaldarsaga. The
story starts as many
fairytales do: the fair
princess has been...
-
Antoine Galland. Many
imitations were written,
especially in France. The
Fornaldarsagas,
Norse and
Icelandic sagas, both of
which are
based on
ancient oral...
- and its
people are
mentioned several times in the
Poetic Edda, in the
Fornaldarsagas, and in
chivalric romances. Its
origins are
partly the old Frankish...
