Norna-Gests Ã¾Ã¡ttr

Norna Gests Ã¾Ã¡ttr

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Norna-Gests Ã¾Ã¡ttr

Norna-Gests þáttr or the Story of Norna-Gest is a legendary saga

Legendary saga

A Legendary saga or Fornaldarsaga is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before the colonization of Iceland....
about the Norse hero Norna-Gest. The story is inserted into the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason
Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta

?l?fs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta or The Greatest Saga of ?l?fr Tryggvasonis one of the kings' sagas, an extended biography of King ?l?fr Tryggvason....
in the Flatey Book and contains several poems from the Poetic Edda

Poetic Edda

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Norna-Gests þáttr or the Story of Norna-Gest is a legendary saga

Legendary saga

Poetic Edda

The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends....
. It has certain similarities with Meleagros.

When he was born three Norns arrived and two of them gave him good gifts, whereas the third was angered and cursed him so that he would not live longer than would burn the candle by his cradle. The eldest Norn instantly extinguished the flame and asked his mother to hide it well.

When Norna-Gest had grown up he became the care-taker of the candle and he is said to have lived for 300 years. He took part in the battles of Sigurd

Sigurd

Sigurd is a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Volsunga saga. The earliest extant representations for his legend come in pictorial form from seven runestones in Sweden and most notably the Ramsund carving and the G?k Runestone ....
the Völsung, spent time with Ragnar Lodbrok

Ragnar Lodbrok

Ragnar Lodbrok was a Norsemen legendary hero from the Viking Age who was thoroughly reshaped in Old Norse poetry and legendary sagas.The namesake and subject of ?Ragnar?s Saga?, and one of the most popular Viking heroes among the Norse themselves, Ragnar was a great Viking commander and the scourge of France....
's son Björn Ironside

Björn Ironside

Bj?rn Ironside was a legendary Swedish king who would have lived sometime in the 9th century. Bj?rn Ironside is said to have been the first ruler of House of Muns?, and in the early 18th century a barrow named after a king Bj?rn on the island of Muns? was claimed by antiquarians to be Bj?rn Ironside's grave....
and his brothers, with Starkad

Starkad

Starkad, Old Norse: Starka?r or St?rku?r, Latin: Starcaterus, and during the late Middle Ages, also known as Starkodder, was a legendary hero in Norse mythology....
, with the Swedish king Sigurd Ring

Sigurd Ring

Sigurd Ring or Ring was a Swedish and Danish king mentioned in many old Scandinavian legends. According to B?sa saga ok Herrauds, there was once a saga on Sigurd Ring, but this saga is now lost....
, with king Erik at Uppsala

Uppsala

Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest Cities of Sweden of Sweden with 128,409 inhabitants.Located about 70 km north of the capital Stockholm, it is also the seat of the Uppsala municipality ....
, with king Harald Fairhair and with King Hlodver in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. Finally, he came to Óláfr Tryggvason and was baptized.

According to legend, when King Olav tried to convert the Norse to Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
, he brought Norna-Gest to his court, and lit the candle that the third norn, Skuld, had prophesied about. In accordance with the prophecy, when the candle failed, Norna-Gest died.

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Eiríkr at Uppsölum is almost a default name for the Swedish king. It could refer to Erik Refilsson

Erik Refilsson

Erik Refilsson was a semi-legendary king of Sweden of the House of Muns?, who would have lived in the early 9th century. One of the few surviving Scandinavian sources that deal with Swedish kings from this time is Hervarar saga....
, Erik Björnsson

Erik Björnsson

Erik Bj?rnsson was one of the sons of Bj?rn Ironside and a semi-legendary king of Sweden of the House of Muns?, who would have lived in the early 9th century....
, Erik Anundsson or Eric the Victorious. Hlodver of Germany probably refers either to Louis the German

Louis the German

Louis the German , was a grandson of Charlemagne and the third son of the succeeding Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye....
or Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor

Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor

Louis II the Younger was the King of Italy from 844 and then Holy Roman Emperor from 855 until his death.He was the eldest son of the Emperor Lothair I and Ermengarde of Tours....
.