Sturlunga saga (often called simply Sturlunga) is a collection of Icelandic sagas by various authors from the 12th and 13th centuries; it was assembled ca. The sagas (from Icelandic saga, plural sögur) are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history about early Viking voyages 1300. It mostly deals with the story of the Sturlungs, a powerful family clan during the Sturlungaöld period of the Icelandic Commonwealth. The Sturlungs (Icelandic Sturlungar) were a powerful family clan in medieval mid- 13th century Iceland, in the time of the Icelandic Commonwealth The Age of the Sturlungs or the Sturlung Era (Icelandic Sturlungaöld) was a 42-44 year period of internal strife in mid 13th century Iceland The Icelandic Commonwealth or the Icelandic Free State (Þjóðveldið was the state existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing in
Sturlunga saga begins with the legend of Geirmundr heljarskinn, a regional ruler in late 9th century Norway, who moves to Iceland to escape the growing power of King Harald Finehair. A legend ( Latin, legenda, "things to be read" is a Narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to Harald Fairhair or Harald Finehair ( Old Norse: Haraldr hárfagri, Norwegian: Harald Hårfagre) (c The more historical sagas commence in 1117 with Þorgils saga ok Hafliða. Other sagas included in the collection are Sturlu saga, Prestsaga Guðmundar Arasonar and Íslendinga saga, which constitutes almost half the Sturlunga saga and covers the period 1183–1264. Íslendinga saga makes up a large part of Sturlunga, a compilation of medieval Icelandic skin manuscripts dating back to around AD 1300.
Sturlunga saga is the main source of Icelandic history during the 12th and 13th centuries and it was written by people who experienced the internal power struggle which ended in Iceland's loss of sovereignty and submission to Norway in 1262. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional
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- Sturlunga Saga, including the Islendinga Saga of Lawman Sturla Thordson and Other Works Edited with prolegomena, appendices, tables, indices and maps by Dr. Gudbrand Vigfusson. Guðbrandur Vigfússon or Gudbrand Vigfusson (born 1827 or 1828 died January 31 1889 was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1878.
- Sturlúnga-Saga edr Íslendinga-Saga hin mikla: Volume 1. Volume 2, Part 1. Volume 2, Part 2 Edited with a preface in Icelandic and Danish by Bjarni Þorsteinsson. Published in Copenhagen by Þorsteinn Einarsson Rangel: 1817, 1818 and 1820 respectively.
- Geirmundar þáttr heljarskinns (Old Norse text based on Gudbrand Vigfusson's edition) translated into English as The Tale of Geirmund Deathskin
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