''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 ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
, 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 Lyngen fjord ...
and son of
Odin. Sæmingr had married ''Nauma'' who had given her name to
Namdalen
Namdalen ( sma, Nååmesjevuemie) is a traditional district in the central part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Namsos, Grong, Overhalla, Røyrvik, Nærøysund, Høylandet, Flatanger, Lierne, Leka, and Namsskogan, all in Tr ...
. 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 were ...
'', and they had had the sons Eysteinn and Eirikr inn víðförli. Eirikr is the hero of ''
Eireks saga víðförla
''Eireks Saga Víðförla'' is a legendary saga about a Norwegian, Eric the Traveller. He travels to Miklagard, modern Istanbul, with Eric the Dane. There he interacts with a King, possibly the Eastern Roman Emperor, who informs him on Christian ...
'' and discovered
Ódáinsakr. Eysteinn married Ása, the daughter of
Sigurd Hart, and Áslaug, the daughter of
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye
Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye ( non, Sigurðr ormr í auga) or Sigurd Áslaugsson 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 ...
. They had several sons, of whom Halfdan was one.
It deals with Eysteinn's adventures in
Staraja Ladoga
Staraya Ladoga (russian: Ста́рая Ла́дога, p=ˈstarəjə ˈladəɡə, lit=Old Ladoga), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near ...
(Aldeigjuborg), his conquest of
Alaborg, 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
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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.
ussianСага 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.
erman* 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
Julius August Christoph Zech (24 February 1821 Stuttgart, Germany − 13 July 1864 Berg) was a German astronomer and mathematician.
In 1849, Zech published a table of logarithms; as a result, Zech's logarithm, Zech logarithms for finite fields ...
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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Fiction set in the 9th century
14th-century literature
Legendary sagas