- Tryggvaflokkr
Tryggvaflokkr (the "Flokkr-poem of Tryggva") was an Old Norse poem about
Tryggve the Pretender , an 11th-centuryviking chieftain who purported to be the son ofOlaf Tryggvason and tried to conquer Norway in 1033. It is usually attributed toSighvat Thordarson , askald andcourt poet ofCanute the Great . The only surviving portion of the poem is that quoted bySnorri Sturluson in the "Heimskringla "::"For fame eager, forth fared":"from the north King Tryggve,":"whilst Svein from the south forth ":"sailed to join the battle":"From fray not far was I.":"Fast they raised their banners":"Swiftly then-rang sword 'gainst":"sword-began the bloodshed." [Hollander 536.]
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*Snorri Sturluson. "Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway."
Lee Hollander , transl. Univ. of Texas Press, 2002.
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