''Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar'' is a

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from early 14th century Iceland about Halfdan Eysteinsson. The main events appear to take place in the 9th century. Halfdan's grandfather was Þrándr, the eponymous king of

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, who in turn was the son of Sæmingr, king of

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and son of

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. Sæmingr had married ''Nauma'' who had given her name to

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. Þrándr had married Dagmær, the sister of Svanhvít, the heroine of ''

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'', and they had had the sons Eysteinn and Eirikr inn víðförli. Eirikr is the hero of ''

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'' and discovered Ódáinsakr. Eysteinn married Ása, the daughter of

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, and Áslaug, the daughter of

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. They had several sons, of whom Halfdan was one. It deals with Eysteinn's adventures in

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(Aldeigjuborg), his conquest of

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, and the adventures of his son Halfdan.

Editions

* Biörner, Erik J., ed. ''Nordiska Kämpa Dater''. Stockholmiæ: Horrn, 1737. * Bjarni Vilhjálmsson and Guðni Jónsson, eds. ''Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda''. Reykjavík, 1943–1944, vol. 3, 283–319. * Glazyrína, Galína, ed. ''Íslandskíje víkíngskíje sagí o severnoj Rúsí: Teksty, perevod, kommentaríj''. Moskva, 1996, 47–115. * Guðni Jónsson, ed. ''Fornaldar sögur Norðurlanda''. Reykjavík: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan, 1954–1959, vol. 4, 245–285. * Rafn, C rlC ristian ed. ''Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda''. Kaupmannahöfn: Popp, 1829–1830, vol. 3, 519–558. rimary manuscript: AM 343 a 4to. Variants from: AM 586 4to, AM 340 4to.* Schröder, Franz Rolf, ed. ''Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar''. Altnordische Saga-Bibliothek 15. Halle a. S.: Niemeyer, 1917. * Valdimar Ásmundarson, ed. ''Fornaldarsögur Norðrlanda''. 2nd edition. Reykjavík: Sigurður Kristjánsson, 1891, vol. 3, 399–431. irst ed. Reykjavík, 1885-1891

Translations

* Biörner, Erik J., trans. ''Nordiska Kämpa Dater''. Stockholmiæ: Horrn, 1737. eparately paginated wedish and Latin* Glazyrína, Galína, trans. ''Íslandskíje víkíngskíje sagí o severnoj Rúsí: Teksty, perevod, kommentaríj''. Moskva, 1996, 47–115, 47–115. ussian
Сага о Хальвдане Эйстейнссоне
' (link to Russian translation) * Hardman, George L., trans.

. Accessed 17 January 2014. nglish* Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, trans. ''Seven Viking Romances''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985, 171–198. nglish(Reprinted in Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, trans. Two Viking Romances. New York: Penguin, 1995. * Ibáñez Lluch, Santiago, trans. ''La Saga de Yngvar el Viajero y otras sagas legendarias de Islandia''. Madrid: Miraguano, 2011, 235–295. panish* Nilssen, Kjell Tore, and Árni Ólafsson, trans.
''Halfdan Eysteinssons saga''
. Published 2014. orwegian-Bokmål* Simek, Rudolf, trans. ''Zwei Abenteuersagas''. Altnordische Bibliothek 7. Leverkusen: Literaturverlag Norden, 1989, 55–99.

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* Starý, Jiří, Lucie Korecká, Ondřej Himmer, Marie Novotná, Markéta Podolská, Kateřina Ratajová, David Šimeček, and Pavel Vondřička, trans. ''Lživé ságy starého severu''. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2015, 165–192.

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External links

Entry
in the Stories for All Time website.

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