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KINGS OF NORWAY.
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  • Erics Saga Vidforla (of Eric the Wanderer, who goes in search of the land of immortality.) Mythological.
  • Edwardar Saga hins helga (of Saint Edward of England).
  • Fertrams Saga ok Plato (of Fertram and Plato, sons of King Arthur). Fabulous.
  • Finaboga Ramma Saga (of Finabog the Strong). Fable and history, from middle of tenth to eleventh century.
  • Flateyar Annall (the Flatö Codex, so called from the Isle of Flatö in Breidafiord in Iceland, in which the manuscript was discovered in 1650. The Annals end in 1395. It contains many Saga transcribed into it, and is considered a most important historical collection. The MSS. was written by Ion Thordsen, priest, and Magnus Thorhalsen, priest, between the years 1387 and 1395). Historical.
  • Færeyinga Saga (of the Færo Islands). Historical.
  • Floamanna Saga (of a Thorgill and his ancestors, original settlers in Iceland, and of his adventures in Greenland. Thorgill died 1033). Historical.
  • Flores ok Leo (of Flores and Leo).
  • Florents Saga Fraka Konungs (of Florent King of the Franks, invented by Master Simon in Lyons).
  • Fridthiofs Saga (of Fridthiof the Bold). This beautiful story has been the groundwork of several poetic and dramatic imitations, of which Bishop Tegner's, in Swedish, has been translated into English.
  • Flores Konungs Saga ok Sona hans (of King Floris and his sons).
  • Gibbons Saga (of Gibbon, son of the French king William).
  • Gaunga Hrolfs Saga (of Rolf Ganger, the conqueror of Normandy). Historical.
  • Gisla Saga Secos sonar (of Gisle the son of Secos. Events of the tenth century in Iceland). Historical.
  • Gretters Saga sterka (of Gretter the Strong). Adventures, fabulous and historical, mixed, of Gretter and his forefathers, in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries.
  • Guimars Saga (of Guimar, an English knight).
  • Gudmundar Biskups Saga (of Bishop Gudmund); being part of the third book of the Sturlunga Saga, or account of the Sturlung family, which ends 1264, and of which the first books are supposed to have been written 1201.
  • Grœnlandinga Thattr (events in Greenland from 1122, and a list of nine bishops and fifteen churches). Historical.
  • Gunnars Saga fifls (of Gunnar the Idiot). Fabulous.
  • Gunlaugs Saga Ormstungu (of Gunlaug the Serpent-tongued). Historical; the period about 1006.
  • Gunnors Saga Thedbrand bana (of Gunnor who killed Thedbrand). Historical; supposed to be written about the end of the twelfth century.
  • Gullthoris Saga (of Gold Thorro, or Torskfindinga Saga). Fabulous.
  • Grims ok Hialmers rimur (rhymes concerning Grim and Hialmer).