The ''Játvarðar Saga'' (in full ''Saga Játvarðar konungs hins helga''), is an
Iceland
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ic
saga
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about the life of
Edward the Confessor
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Edward was the son of Æth ...
,
King of England
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(1042–1066). It was compiled in the 14th century, in Iceland, using a number of earlier English sources as well as the French ''Chronicon Universale Anonymi Laudunensis'' (or a source common with it). It was translated into
English
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in 1894 by
George Webbe Dasent. Among the various details contained in the saga, there is an account of the origin of an
English colony
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in the
Black Sea
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founded by one "Siward earl of Gloucester" (''Sigurðr jarl af Glocestr''), a refugee of the
Norman Conquest of England
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