The Saga of the Jomsvikings.
In A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts of t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1955 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. KNÚT THE FOUNDLING
- 2 . KING GORM'S DREAMS
- 3. EARL HAROLD'S VISIONS
- 4 . KNÚT GORMSSON IS SLAIN IN ENGLAND
- 5. KING HAROLD AND EARL HÁKON PLOT TOGETHER
- 6. KING HAROLD HAS AKI TOKASON SLAIN
- 7 . PALNIR'S MARRIAGE. THE RISE OF PALNATCKI
- 8 . OF KING HAROLD AND SAUMAESA
- 9. SVEIN'S DEALINGS WITH KING HAROLD
- 10. PALNATOKI SLAYS KING HAROLD AND PROCLAIMS SVEIN KING
- 11. PALNATOKI ACKNOWLEDGES HIS ARROW
- 12. THE FOUNDING OF JOMSBORG
- 13. OF EARL STROT-HAROLD AND VfiSETI AND THEIR SONS
- 14. KING SVEIN ARBITRATES THE FEUD
- 15. BUI, SIGVALDI, AND VAGN JOIN THE J0MSV1KINGS
- 16. OF PALNATOKI'S DEATH AND SIGVALDI'S AMBITION
- 17. SIGVALDI CAPTURES KING SVEIN
- 18. THE VOWS OF THE JOMSVIKINGS
- 19. GEIRMUND ESCAPES AND WARNS EARL HAKON
- 20. PREPARATIONS FOR THE BATTLE
- 21. THE BATTLE
- 22. THE AFTERMATH
- 23. THE TESTING OF THE JOMSVIKINGS
- 24. OF VAGN, SIGVALDI, AND THE OTHER J0MSV1KINGS