Knýtlinga saga
The Knýtlinga saga (originally Ævi Danakonunga or Sögur Danakonunga which means life / legend of the Danish kings ) is the legend about King Canute the Great and his descendants. It was written in Iceland around 1260 and deals with the Danish rulers from Harald I of Denmark (10th century) until 1187. It is one of the sources that mentions the battle of Assandun , among other things .
It connects to the Heimskringla (World Circle), the medieval work of Snorri Sturluson on the Norwegian kings. Like Snorri, the author often uses Scaldic poetry as a documentary source. There are reasons to assume that the author Ólafr Þórðarson († 1259) was the nephew Snorris. Ólafr stayed with the Danish ruler Waldemar II of Denmark (1240-1241) and Waldemar provided the author of the saga with a lot of information and excellent reports.
literature
- Jomsvikingasaga ok Knytlinga. Prentaðar hja HF Popp, Kaupmannahofn 1828 ( books.google.de ).
- Harald Erhardt: Knýtlinga saga . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 1241 f.
- Rolf Heller: Knytlinga saga . In: Ture Johannisson, et al. (Ed.): Arkiv för nordisk filologi (ANF) . Episode 5, volume 26 (= band 82 of the complete edition). CWK Gleerups förlag, Lund 1967, p. 155-174 (multilingual).
- Franz J. Keutler: Knýtlinga saga . In: Kindlers New Literature Lexicon . Volume 18, p. 895 f.
- Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 , pp. 211 ff.