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The Ynglinga saga was originally written in Old Norse
Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
 by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was two-time elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing....
 about 1225. He based it on an earlier Ynglingatal
Ynglingatal

Ynglingatal is a skaldic poetry listing the kings of the House of Ynglings, dated by most scholars to the late 9th century.The original version is attributed to ?j???lfr of Hvinir who was the skald of a Norway petty king named Ragnvald the Mountain-High and who was a cousin of Harald Fairhair....
 which is attributed to the Norwegian 9th century skald
Skald

The skald was a member of a group of poets, whose courtly poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry ....
 Þjóðólfr of Hvinir
Þjóðólfr of Hvinir

?j???lfr of Hvinir was a Norwegian skald, active around the year 900. He is considered to have been the original author of Ynglingatal, a poem glorifying the Norwegian petty kingdom Ragnvald the Mountain-High, by describing how he was descended from the Sweden kings and the Norse gods....
, and which also appears in Historia Norwegiae
Historia Norvegiæ

Historia Norwegi? is a short history of the Norwegian past written by a monk around the second half of the 12th century. The only extant manuscript, in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie and kept at Brechin Castle, Scotland, is fragmentary; what we have of the Historia is found on folios 1r-12r....
.

The Ynglinga saga is the first part of Snorri's history of the ancient Norse kings, the Heimskringla
Heimskringla

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ca....
. It tells the most ancient part of the story of the House of Ynglings (the Scylfings of Beowulf
Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English language heroic Epic poetry of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th to the early 11th century, and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden....
).






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The Ynglinga saga was originally written in Old Norse
Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
 by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was two-time elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing....
 about 1225. He based it on an earlier Ynglingatal
Ynglingatal

Ynglingatal is a skaldic poetry listing the kings of the House of Ynglings, dated by most scholars to the late 9th century.The original version is attributed to ?j???lfr of Hvinir who was the skald of a Norway petty king named Ragnvald the Mountain-High and who was a cousin of Harald Fairhair....
 which is attributed to the Norwegian 9th century skald
Skald

The skald was a member of a group of poets, whose courtly poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry ....
 Þjóðólfr of Hvinir
Þjóðólfr of Hvinir

?j???lfr of Hvinir was a Norwegian skald, active around the year 900. He is considered to have been the original author of Ynglingatal, a poem glorifying the Norwegian petty kingdom Ragnvald the Mountain-High, by describing how he was descended from the Sweden kings and the Norse gods....
, and which also appears in Historia Norwegiae
Historia Norvegiæ

Historia Norwegi? is a short history of the Norwegian past written by a monk around the second half of the 12th century. The only extant manuscript, in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie and kept at Brechin Castle, Scotland, is fragmentary; what we have of the Historia is found on folios 1r-12r....
.

The Ynglinga saga is the first part of Snorri's history of the ancient Norse kings, the Heimskringla
Heimskringla

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ca....
. It tells the most ancient part of the story of the House of Ynglings (the Scylfings of Beowulf
Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English language heroic Epic poetry of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th to the early 11th century, and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden....
). It was first translated into English and published in 1844.

The saga deals with the arrival of the Norse gods to Scandinavia and how Freyr
Freyr

Freyr is one of the most important gods of Norse paganism. Freyr was highly associated with agriculture, weather and, as a phallus fertility god, Freyr "bestows peace and pleasure on mortals"....
 founded the Swedish Yngling dynasty 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 ....
. Then the saga follows the line of Swedish kings until Ingjald
Ingjald

Ingjaldr hinn illr??i or Ingjald illr?de was a legendary Sweden king of the House of Ynglings. Ingjald may have ruled sometime during the 7th century, and he was the son of the former king Anund....
 ill-ruler after which the descendants settled in Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 and became the ancestors of the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair.

For a discussion on the controversy about the dating of the information, see Ynglingatal
Ynglingatal

Ynglingatal is a skaldic poetry listing the kings of the House of Ynglings, dated by most scholars to the late 9th century.The original version is attributed to ?j???lfr of Hvinir who was the skald of a Norway petty king named Ragnvald the Mountain-High and who was a cousin of Harald Fairhair....
.

External links

  • and Heimskringla from «Kulturformidlingen norrøne tekster og kvad» Norway.
  • Ynglinga saga