The Fagrskinna is a Norse saga from the Fornmanna Sogur. An immediate source for the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson, it is a central text in the Old Norse genre of Kings’ sagas; It contains a thirteenth-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, including extensive citation of skaldic verses, some of them preserved nowhere else. The Norse sagas or Viking sagas (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur), are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, about early Viking voyages, about migration to Iceland, and of feuds between Icelandic families. ... Heimskringla is the Icelandic name of a collection of sagas recorded in Iceland around 1225 by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1179-1242). ... Snorri Sturlason (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. ... Old Norse is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until the 13th century. ...
Fagrskinna contains allusions similar to those in Heimskringla concerning the Norwegian King Hakon and his upbringing at the English court of Athelstan. Haakon I (c. ... Athelstan (c. ...
Fagrskinna emerges as our sole authority, leaving us with no founded alternative to 1163 as the year of the coronation.
All the three primary sources: King Håkon's declaration of 1202(?), Sverris saga and Fagrskinna, may be traced to a royal milieu, and appear to be manifestations of a royal intention to establish an authorised version of the coronational prelude.
It seems warranted to assume that Fagrskinna and Snorri's Heimskringla both rely on a royally inspired saga, now lost, for the period in question, a fact not adding to the credibility of this intrinsically dubious tradition.
An immediate source for the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson, it is a central text in the Old Norse genre of Kings’ sagas; It contains a thirteenth-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, including extensive citation of skaldic verses, some of them preserved nowhere else.
Fagrskinna contains allusions similar to those in Heimskringla concerning the Norwegian King Hakon and his upbringing at the English court of Athelstan.
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