• Wiley-Blackwell) ISBN 0-631-23502-7 Sverris saga in English translation by J. Stephton Sverris saga in Norges Kongesagaer Saga Sverris konúngs in Old Norse Proverbs...
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    source on Sverre's life is his biography, the Sverris saga, in part written while Sverre was alive. This saga is likely biased, since the foreword states...
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    ogress, first mentioned in 13th-century texts such as Íslendinga saga and Sverris saga, but not explicitly connected with Christmas until the 17th century...
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  • marked by a memorial. Our main sources to Håkon's life are Sverris saga and the Bagler sagas, both written shortly after the events, in the 13th century...
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    for control in a Norwegian civil war during the late 12th century. Sverris saga provided Sverre a royal lineage as putative bastard son of the late king...
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    translation. A Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Gunnlaugr Leifsson, c. 1195, lost. Sverris saga, by Karl Jónsson, c. 1205. Legendary Saga of St. Olaf, c. 1210...
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    contemporaneous sagas: Sverris saga (from 1177 to 1202) the Bagler sagas (1202 to 1217) and Håkon Håkonsson's saga (1217 to 1263). These sagas were written...
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    peasant chief Jon Kutiza attacked King Sverre in Bergen. According to Sverris saga, some of Sverre's men then fled into the church (then known as Olavskirken...
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     70–73 Smith (1988), p. 32 Muir (2005): pp. 115–118 with reference to Sverris saga. Thomson (2008), p. 64. Pálsson & Edwards (1981), p. 16, Introduction...
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    (1996). From Gang Leader to the Lord's Anointed: Kingship in Sverris saga and Hakonar saga Hakonarsonar. The Viking Collection: Studies in Northern civilization...
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