Legendary saga
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A legendary saga or fornaldarsaga is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before the settlement of Iceland. There are some exceptions, such as Yngvars saga víðförla, which take
Fornalder ("times past"); painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo
Hjorvard and Hjalmar propose to Ingeborg
Völsunga saga
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The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan. It is one of the most famous legendary sagas and an example of a
Legendary saga
…historic characters, and this is evident in cases where there are corroborating sources, such as Ragnars saga loðbrókar, Yngvars saga víðförla and Völsunga saga. In the case of Hervarar saga, it conveys names of historical places in present Ukraine during the period c. 150-450, and the last part of the saga is…
Translation by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris, 1870, published by F. S. Ellis
Sigmunds Schwert by Johannes Gehrts