Norse Sagas: Kings’ Sagas

Norse Sagas: Kings’ Sagas, written by author, Snorri Sturluson, translated by: W. C. Green, Muriel A.C. Press, John Coles, G. W. DaSent, William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson, John Sephton, George Webbe, W.G. Collingwood, J. Stefansson, F. York Powell, Edmund Head, Arthur Middleton Reeves, and Samuel Laing.

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Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Not reviewed
• Book Type
  • Collection, Novel
• Characters
  • Strong female main characters, Strong male main characters
• Genre
  • Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Norse Mythology
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Gore, Torture

Book Blurb

Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families. They were written in the Old Norse language, mainly in Iceland.
Kings’ sagas are of the lives of Scandinavian kings. They were composed in the 12th to 14th centuries.
The Icelanders’ sagas, a.k.a. Family Sagas, are stories of real events, passed in oral form till they eventually were recorded, mostly in the 13th century. These are the highest form of the classical Icelandic saga writing.
Legendary Sagas blend remote history with myth or legend. The aim is on a lively narrative and entertainment.

The Sagas:

• Kings’ Sagas
• Ynglinga Saga
• Halfdan the Black Saga
• Harald Harfager’s Saga
• Hakon the Good’s Saga
• Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
• King Olaf Trygvason’s Saga
• Saga of Olaf Haraldson (St. Olaf)
• Saga of Magnus the Good
• Saga of Harald Hardrade
• Saga of Olaf Kyrre
• Magnus Barefoot’s Saga
• Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf
• Saga of Magnus the Blind and of Harald Gille
• Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald
• Saga of Hakon Herdebreid
• Magnus Erlingson’s Saga
• Sagas of Icelanders
• Egil’s Saga (The Story of Egil Skallagrimsson)
• Laxdæla Saga
• The Saga of Hrafnkell, Frey’s Priest
• The Story of the Confederates (Bandamanna saga)
• The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw
• The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald
• Saga of the Greenlanders
• Erik the Red’s Saga
• Grettir’s Saga (The Story of Grettir the Strong)
• Njal’s Saga (The story of Burnt Njal)
• The Saga of Cormac the Skald
• The Saga of Howard the Halt
• The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers
• The Saga of Thrond of Gate
• The Saga of Viga-Glum
• The Saga of Viglund the Fair
• The Saga of Hen-Thorir
• Legendary Sagas
• Volsunga Saga
• Frithiof’s Saga