Portal:Old Norse literature

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Old Norse literature

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Works

• Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, a collection of tales about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings.
• The Laxdaela Saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas.
• Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.
• Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology.
• The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason, a king's saga which relates the life of king Olaf I of Norway.
• The Story of the Volsungs, a legendary saga of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan.