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    The Jómsvíkinga saga ("Saga of the Jomsvikings") is a medieval Icelandic saga composed by an anonymous author. The saga was composed in Iceland during...
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    Jomsvikings (redirect from Jómsvíkinga)
    Icelandic sagas from the 12th and 13th centuries. According to the sagas (particularly the Jómsvíkinga saga, King Olaf Tryggvasson’s Saga, and stories...
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    account in Jómsvíkinga saga, it has been proposed that Thyra was born around 806-812 CE and married Gorm around 825 CE. Jómsvíkinga saga further describes...
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    are divine figures in Norse mythology. They appear together in Jómsvíkinga saga, Njáls saga, and Þorleifs þáttr jarlsskálds. Irpa's name does not appear...
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    inheritance, and Earl Sigvaldi does the same for Norway. In Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and Jómsvíkinga saga, accounts are given of the same memorial feast as in Fagrskinna...
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    According to the Jómsvíkinga saga, Palnatoki founded the brotherhood of Jomsvikings and established its laws. According to the Jómsvíkinga saga, he was the...
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    Hulda-Hrokkinskinna, c. 1280. Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, c. 1300. Jómsvíkinga saga Orkneyinga saga Færeyinga saga Brjáns saga In Norwegian Storm, Gustav;...
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    Åkesson was a Norseman of the late 10th century, mentioned in the Jómsvíkinga saga. At the age of 12, Vagn, a warrior, applied for admission to the mercenary...
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  • (pp. 146-47). Daniel Sävborg, 'Búi the Dragon: Some Intertexts of Jómsvíkinga Saga, Scripta Islandica: Isländska Sällskapets Årsbok, 65 (2014), 101-17...
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    The battle is described in the Norse kings' sagas—including Heimskringla—as well as in Jómsvíkinga saga and Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Saxo Grammaticus...
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