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    Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland. While...
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  • Lögberg-Heimskringla is a community newspaper serving the Icelandic community in North America. A former weekly, it is currently published twice per month...
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    Christianity. Like the later Heimskringla, Ragnvald Rettilbeine is described as killed on Harald's orders. In Heimskringla he is burned alive by Eirik...
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    237. Hollander (Trans.), Heimskringla, p. 562. Hollander (Trans.), Heimskringla, p. 561. Hollander (Trans.), Heimskringla, p. 558. Larsen, p. 114. Stenton...
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    unified Norway. According to Heimskringla and Fagrskinna, Halfdan was the son of the Yngling King Gudrød the Hunter. Heimskringla also names his mother, as...
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    murder of a father. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Heimskringla/Harald Harfager's Saga#Halfdan Haleg's Death. There are two sources that...
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    the Prose Edda (written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), in Heimskringla (also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), and in stanzas...
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  • additional generation between Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye and Harald Fairhair. In Heimskringla, in the section labelled the "Saga of Halfdan the Black" tells of Sigurd...
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    what is today known about Norse mythology and alliterative verse, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in...
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    Mímir (section Heimskringla)
    Sturluson of Iceland, and in euhemerized form as one of the Æsir in Heimskringla, also written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Mímir's name appears...
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