saga
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
The most famous saga-genre is the (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between ...
, which is preserved in two versions. One of them appears as ''Eymundar þáttr hrings'' in the '' Flatey Book'' and the other one is an introductory chapter in '' Yngvars saga víðförla''. They deal with the adventures of
Varangians
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Yaroslav the Wise
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The main difference between the two versions is that in ''Eymundar þáttr hrings'', the hero is a Norwegian, whereas in ''Yngvars saga víðförla'', he is a Swede. In the version where he is Swedish, he is the relative of Erik the Victorious.
See also
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Boris and Gleb
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History
According to the tw ...
References
Sources
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*, Yngvars saga víðförla in Old Norse]
Translations
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* , Russian translation by Yelena Aleksandrovna Rydzevskaya