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2 unusual facts about Historia Norwegiæ


Historia Norwegiæ

The only extant manuscript, in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie and kept at Brechin Castle, Scotland, is fragmentary; what we have of the Historia is found on folios 1r-12r.

The text is important, among other things, because it constitutes (in Latin translation) an independent version of Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's Ynglingatal besides the text in Ynglinga saga in the Heimskringla.



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Halfdan the Black

Heimskringla, Fagrskinna, Ágrip and Historia Norwegiæ all relate that Halfdan drowned when he fell through the ice at the inlet Røykenvik in the lake Randsfjorden on his return home from Hadeland.