''Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar'' is a

legendary saga A legendary saga or ''fornaldarsaga'' (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before the settlement of Iceland.The article ''Fornaldarsagor'' in ''Nationalencyklopedin'' (1991 ...

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

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is ...

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

Hålogaland Hålogaland was the northernmost of the Norwegian provinces in the medieval Norse sagas. In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hålogaland was a kingdom extending between the Namdalen valley in Trøndelag county and the Lyng ...

and son of

Odin Odin (; from ) is a widely revered god in Norse mythology and Germanic paganism. Most surviving information on Odin comes from Norse mythology, but he figures prominently in the recorded history of Northern Europe. This includes the Roman Em ...

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

Namdalen Namdalen () is a Districts of Norway, traditional district in the central part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities of Namsos Municipality, Namsos, Grong Municipality, Grong, Overhalla Municipality, Overhalla, Røyrvik Municipality, Røyr ...

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

Hrómundar saga Gripssonar ''Hrómundar saga Gripssonar'' or ''The Saga of Hromund Gripsson'' is a legendary saga from Iceland. The original version has been lost, but its content has been preserved in the ''rímur'' of ''Hrómundr Gripsson'', known as ''Griplur'', which we ...

'', and they had had the sons Eysteinn and Eirikr inn víðförli. Eirikr is the hero of '' Eireks saga víðförla'' and discovered Ódáinsakr. Eysteinn married Ása, the daughter of

Sigurd Hart Sigurd Hart or Sigurd Hjort was a legendary king of Ringerike (modern central south Norway), during the late 9th or early 10th centuries. he is mentioned in ''Ragnarssona þáttr'' ("The Tale of Ragnar's Sons") and in '' Halvdan Svartes saga'' ("H ...

, and Áslaug, the daughter of

Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye () or Sigurd Ragnarsson was a semi-legendary Viking warrior and Danish king active from the mid to late 9th century. According to multiple saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one ...

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

Staraja Ladoga Staraya Ladoga ( rus, Ста́рая Ла́дога, p=ˈstarəjə ˈladəɡə, r=Stáraya Ládoga, t=Old Ladoga), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Vo ...

(Aldeigjuborg), his conquest of

Alaborg Álaborg or Áluborg is the name of a Varangian fort mentioned in the Norse sagas about Halfdan Eysteinsson and Hrolf Ganger. The first saga indicates that it was possible to sail from Staraya Ladoga, Aldeigjuborg (Ladoga) to Alaborg northward by ...

, 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. zech

External links

Entry
in the Stories for All Time website.

* ttp://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/HalfdanEysteinssonHardman.html English Translation by George L. Hardman with Facing Old Norse Textbr>The saga in Old NorseA second site with the saga in Old Norse
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