List of Legendary sagas
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This List of Legendary sagas is a list of Legendary sagas. They blend remote history with myth or legend. The aim is on a lively narrative and entertainment. Scandinavia's pagan past was a proud and heroic history for the Icelanders.
- Áns saga bogsveigis
- Ásmundar saga kappabana - A saga based on the German Lay of Hildebrand.
- Bósa saga - like Beowulf it has Geatish heroes.
- Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana
- Eireks saga víðförla
- Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna
- Gautreks saga - a very popular and humouristic legend about a Geatish king.
- Gríms saga loðinkinna
- Göngu-Hrólfs saga - A saga which deals with the Rollo, the founder of Normandy.
- Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra
- Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar
- Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka - A Norwegian legend, the hero of which is compared to Hrólf Kraki.
- Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks - a saga of Swedish origin containing Swedish, Geatish and Gothic heroes. This saga still serves as a source for Swedish historians.
- Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis
- Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar - Another saga of Swedish, or rather Geatish, origin with a Swedish warrior princess who is won by a Geatish prince.
- Hrólfs saga kraka; A saga of Danish origin which is related to the Old English poem Beowulf.
- Hrómundar saga Gripssonar
- Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra A saga of the more traditional fairy tale kind, where a young man delives a troll woman and her beautiful daughter from a curse.
- Ketils saga hœngs
- Ragnars saga loðbrókar (two versions) - We know that the hero of this legend has existed in real life and he conquered Paris and may be the most famous of the Vikings.
- Sturlaugs saga starfsama
- Sögubrot af fornkonungum - A remnant of a larger work dealing with the Swedish and Danish kings of old.
- Völsunga saga - The Scandinavian version of Nibelungenlied.
- Yngvars saga víðförla - A late saga of Swedish origin, which takes place in the 11th century and the historic basis of which is undisputable thanks to the fact that there are corroborating historic sources.
- Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar
- Orvar-Odd's saga (two versions)
[edit] Þættir (short stories)
- Eindriða þáttr ok Erlings
- Eymundar þáttr hrings
- Hemings þáttr Áslákssonar (two versions)
- Hróa þáttr heimska
- Norna-Gests þáttr
- Ragnarssona þáttr
- Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
- Sörla þáttr
- Völsa þáttr
