Legendary Saga of St. Olaf
- Legendary Saga of St. Olaf
"The Legendary Saga of St. Olaf" or "Helgisaga Óláfs konungs Haraldssonar" is one of the kings' sagas, a 13th century biography of the 11th century Saint Olaf II of Norway. It is based heavily on the largely lost "Oldest Saga of St. Olaf". The composition is primitive and clumsy and the saga essentially consists of a series of separate anecdotes extracted from skaldic verse. [Andersson 2006, p. 14.] The anonymous author may have been a Norwegian and the saga is preserved in one mid-13th century Norwegian manuscript. [Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson 1941, p. XIII.] It is thought to have been composed in the early 13th century. [Finlay 2004, p. 9.] Snorri Sturluson is believed to have used a work closely similar to the "Legendary Saga" when he composed his "Separate Saga of St. Olaf" and the "Heimskringla". [Hoops 1999, p. 243.]
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References
* Andersson, Theodore Murdock (2006). "The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas, 1180-1280". Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-4408-X
* Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson (editor) (1941). "Íslenzk fornrit XXVI : Heimskringla I". Hið íslenzka fornritafélag.
* Finlay, Alison (editor and translator) (2004). "Fagrskinna, a Catalogue of the Kings of Norway". Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-04-13172-8
* Hoops, Johannes (1999). "Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde: Band 14". Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017351-4
External links
* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC05163436&id=u-F9Ami8McYC&printsec=titlepage Olafs saga hins helga] An 1849 edition of the Old Norse text.
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