Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (14th c. Middle Icelandic: [ˈbɒːrðar ˈsaɣa ˈsnæːˌfelsˌɒːsː]; Modern Icelandic: [ˈpaurðar ˈsaːɣa ˈstnaiːˌfɛlsˌaus] listen (help · info)) or Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss ok Gests is a late saga of the Icelanders with legendary elements. It falls into two sections, one about Bárðr and the other about his son, Gestr; the first part takes place ...

Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss 18, O˛rvar-Odds saga 19ff. Reiðartýr Wagon God or God of riders Rǫgnir Chief ('He that reigns') Óðins nǫfn (5) Rúnatýr God of Runes Runni vagna Mover of Constellations Saðr Sadr, Sann Truthful, Sooth Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (47), Óðins nǫfn (8) Sanngetall / Finder of Truth/Sooth

The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas, are one genre of Icelandic sagas.They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries, during the so-called Saga Age.

Laxdæla saga (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlaksˌtaiːla ˈsaːɣa] ()), also Laxdœla saga (Old Norse pronunciation [ˈlɑksˌdøːlɑ ˈsɑɣɑ]), Laxdoela saga, Laxdaela saga or The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr, is one of the Icelanders' sagas.Written in the 13th century, it tells of people in the Breiðafjörður area of Iceland from the late 9th century to the early 11th century.

Njáls saga (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈnjauls ˌsaːɣa] listen (help · info)), also Njála (listen (help · info)), Brennu-Njáls saga ([ˈprɛnːʏ-ˌnjauls ˌsaːɣa] listen (help · info)) or "The Story of Burnt Njáll", is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.. The saga deals with a process of blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth, showing ...

Sāgas (islandiešu: saga, daudzskaitlī: sögur, no segja — 'stāstīt, runāt') ir seno Ziemeļeiropas ģermāņu skaldu sacerēti mutvārdu varoņeposi, kas visilgāk saglabājās Islandes viduslaiku kultūrā. Pēc 14. gadsimta sāgas pārvērtās par pasaku literatūru (Lygisögur).Sāgas parasti vēstī par teiksmainiem 9.—11. gadsimta notikumiem Islandē, kā arī Norvēģijā ...

The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively). While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are …

Egill's Saga or Egil's saga (Old Norse: Egils saga [ˈeɣels ˈsɑɣɑ]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈeijɪls ˈsaːɣa] ()) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald.The saga spans the years c. 850–1000 and traces the family's history from Egill's grandfather to his offspring.

A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn / ˈ j ɔː t ʊ n /; Old Norse pronunciation: ; plural jötnar / jǫtnar [ˈjɔtnɑz̠]) or, in Old English, eoten (plural eotenas) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology.In Norse mythology, they are often contrasted with gods (Æsir and Vanir) and other non-human figures, such as dwarfs and elves ...