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4 unusual facts about Oddr Snorrason


Gunnlaugr Leifsson

This work is now lost but it is believed to have been an expansion of the Latin Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar written by his monastic brother, Oddr Snorrason.

Snorrason

Oddr Snorrason, Latin royal biography attributed to a 12th-century Icelandic Benedictine monk at the Þingeyrar monastery (Þingeyrarklaustur)

Theodoric the Monk

Theodoric relied heavily on Icelandic sources, possibly including the Oldest Saga of St. Olaf and Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar.

Tryggvi the Pretender

His story appears in Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, the saga Morkinskinna, and in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar composed by Oddr Snorrason.


Augvald

Norse sagas telling parts of the story of Augvald include the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (by both Snorri Sturluson and Oddr Snorrason), the Saga of Half & His Heroes and the Flateyjarbok.

Olaf Tryggvason

In the 1190s, two sagas of Olaf Tryggvason were written in Iceland, by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson.

Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta

Composed around 1300 it takes Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla as its base but expands the narrative greatly with content from the previous biographies of the king by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson as well as less directly related material.


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