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    Morkinskinna is an Old Norse kings' saga, relating the history of Norwegian kings from approximately 1025 to 1157. The saga was written in Iceland around...
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  • defeated and killed at the Battle of Holmengrå. According to the sagas Morkinskinna and Heimskringla, Inge’s infirmity stemmed from having been carried into...
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    Vistula in Poland". [in:] Theodore Murdock Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030–1157)...
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    on 24 July 2023. Retrieved 24 July 2023. Andersson, Theodore Murdock; Morkinskinna, Ellen Gade (2000). The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian...
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    previously been in exile to Yaroslav following the revolt in 1028, and Morkinskinna says that Yaroslav embraced Harald first and foremost because he was...
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    (Magnus Berrføtt), was acknowledged to be his illegitimate son. The Morkinskinna (c. 1220) describes Olaf III as: "[A] tall man, and everyone agrees that...
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    Ireland). His story appears in Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, the saga Morkinskinna, and a saga composed by Oddr Snorrason on Olaf Tryggvason. According...
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  • Research, 1998. Legendary Óláfs saga helga, ch. 71 Morkinskinna, ed. Finnur Jónsson. Morkinskinna. Copenhagen: Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk...
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    similar account is given in one of Snorri's main sources, the collection Morkinskinna, which seems to have given the title Saga Magnús góða ok Haralds harðráða...
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    Heimskringla are disputed, but they include earlier kings' sagas, such as Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna and the 12th-century Norwegian synoptic histories and oral...
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