The Ynglinga saga was originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson about 1225. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age Snorri Sturluson (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian poet and politician He based it on an earlier Ynglingatal which is attributed to the Norwegian 9th century skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, and which also appears in Historia Norwegiae. Controversy The historicity of the matter in Ynglingatal has been a contention among scholars since the 19th century The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The skald was a member of a group of Poets whose courtly poetry (Icelandic dróttkvæði) is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic Þjóðólfr of Hvinir ( Thjodolf) was a Norwegian Skald, active around the year 900 Historia Norwegiæ is a short history of the Norwegian past written by a Monk around the second half of the 12th century
The Ynglinga saga is the first part of Snorri's history of the ancient Norse kings, the Heimskringla. Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse Kings' sagas. It tells the most ancient part of the story of the House of Ynglings (the Scylfings of Beowulf). Ynglings were the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty It can refer to the following clans: The Scylfings ( Old Norse: Skilfingar) the Beowulf is an Old English Heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between It was first translated into English and published in 1844. Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year
The saga deals with the arrival of the Norse gods to Scandinavia and how Freyr founded the Swedish Yngling dynasty at Uppsala. "Frey" redirects here For other uses of Frey and Freyr, see Frey (disambiguation. Uppsala ˈɵpˌsɑːla (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County ( Uppsala län) and the fourth largest city of Then the saga follows the line of Swedish kings until Ingjald ill-ruler after which the descendants settled in Norway and became the ancestors of the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair. Ingjaldr hinn illráði or Ingjald illråde ("ill-ruler" was a legendary Swedish king of the House of Ynglings Ingjald may have ruled sometime Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Harald Fairhair or Harald Finehair ( Old Norse: Haraldr hárfagri, Norwegian: Harald Hårfagre) (c
For a discussion on the controversy about the dating of the information, see Ynglingatal. Controversy The historicity of the matter in Ynglingatal has been a contention among scholars since the 19th century
External links
- Ynglinga saga and Heimskringla from «Kulturformidlingen norrøne tekster og kvad» Norway.
- Northvegr website: Ynglinga saga
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