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An Old Norse work from thirteenth-century Iceland, also called the Prose Edda, and the fullest surviving source of Norse myth. It served as a textbook for poets, with question-and-answer dialogue and explanations of skaldic verse and its poetic devices.

A collection of sagas about the rulers of Norway and Sweden, from mythological beginnings through 1177. It starts with the legendary Yngling dynasty and includes a long saga of Saint Olaf II and the career of Harald Hardrada, ending at Stamford Bridge in 1066.