The Heimskringla or the Saga of the kings de Norvège , literally sphere of the world in Old norrois, is a collection of sagas written and compiled in Iceland in the neighborhoods of 1225 by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson. This collection begin with the origins mythological from the dynasty from kings de Suède in the Ynglinga Saga, continues with the historical narration of the life of the Norwegian monarchs (for the majority of the 10th century at the 12th century), and finishes in 1177 under reign of Magnus Erlingsson.

Heimskringla follows Odin and its companions since Ásgard, their city of origin, until their establishment in Scandinavia. It recalls the tournament of the kings, the creation of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and the Denmark, forwardings Viking, the discovery and the colonization of the Iceland and the Greenland, the discovery of the America and conquests of the England and the Normandy.

The saga of Olaf Haraldson constitutes the showpiece of work. A third of the writings relates to its 15 years reign. The saga of Harald Hardraada tells its forwardings towards the east, its exploits with Constantinople, in Syria, Sicily and its battles in England against Harold Godwinson where he died in Stamford Bridge in 1066 a few days only before the Bataille of Hastings.

The collection contains the following sagas:

1. the Saga of Ynglingar
2. the saga of Halfdan the Black
3. the sagade Harald Hårfagre
4. the saga of Haakon the good
5. the saga of Harald Gråfell
6. the saga of Olaf Tryggvason
7. the saga of Olaf Haraldson
8. the saga of Magnus the Good
9. the saga of Harald Hardraada
10. the saga of Olaf Kyrre
11. the saga of Magnus the Tramp
12. the saga of Sigurd the crusader
13. the saga of Magnus the blind man and Harald Gille
14. the saga of Sigurd, Eystein and Inge, wire of Harald
15. the saga of Haakon Herdebreid
16. the saga of Magnus Erlingson

See too

Related articles

• List of the kings de Norvège

External bonds

• Translation of the '' Heimskringla ''