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He is also known as Gnodar-Asmund in other sagas in which his stepfather was Illugi, Foster-Son of Grid.
Koht, Halvdan The Old Norse Sagas (Periodicals Service Co. 1931)
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.
Eiríkr or Eiríkur Magnússon (1 February 1833 – 24 January 1913) was an Icelandic scholar who was Librarian at the University of Cambridge, taught Old Norse to William Morris, translated numerous Icelandic sagas into English in collaboration with him, and played an important role in the movement to study the history and literature of the Norsemen in Victorian England.
Óskar Halldórsson (1921–1983), Icelandic scholar of Icelandic sagas
According to the Faroese Sagas and local tradition, the first Viking settler on Suðuroy established a farm in Hov, which is said to be named after his pagan hof.
Koht, Halvdan Norske dronningar (in "The Old Norse Sagas", 1931)
The story of Prometheus chained to Mount Kazbek or to Mount Elbrus in particular is similar to an element in the Nart sagas.
An example of how sagas have been used as indirect sources for religious practice is Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.
Beamish's modest volume not only popularised the discovery by epitomising the principal details in Rafn's great work Antiquitates Americanæ (Copenhagen, 1837), but it contains, in the shape of translations from the Sagas, one of the best summaries of Icelandic historical literature anywhere to be found within an equal space.
In the 1190s, two sagas of Olaf Tryggvason were written in Iceland, by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson.
He co-edited with Gareth Williams a book entitled 'Sagas, Saints and Settlements' from a 1996 interdisciplinary symposium at the University of St. Andrews, exploring the history, culture, and literature of the Viking Age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia.
Red Thread was founded in September 2012 by Ragnar Tørnquist, creator of The Longest Journey and Dreamfall sagas, and the The Secret World and Anarchy Online universes.
According to legend, and as told in Saxo's Gesta Danorum (chronicles of the Danes), as well as in the Scylding Sagas, Helge (brother to Hroar, both known from the Beowolf poems) once came by this island on one of his raiding expeditions.
The sagas specifically mention linden wood for shield construction, although finds from graves shows mostly other timbers, such as fir, alder and poplar.