The Saga of the Jómsvíkings
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The Saga of the Jómsvíkings
Univ. of Texas Press, 1955
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In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts of the battle became the basis for one of the liveliest of the Icelandic sagas, with special emphasis on the doings of the Jomsvikings, the famed members of a warrior community that feared no one and dared all. In Lee M. Hollander's faithful translation, all of the unknown twelfth-century author's narrative genius and flair for dramatic situation and pungent characterization is preserved.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Knut the Foundling
2. King Gorm's Dreams
3. Earl Harold's Visions
4. Knut Gormsson Is Slain in England
5. King Harold and Earl Hakon Plot Together
6. King Harold Has Aki Tokason Slain
7. Palnir's Marriage. The Rise of Palnatoki
8. Of King Harold and Saumaesa
9. Svein's Dealings with King Harold
10. Palnatoki Slays King Harold and Proclaims Svein King
11. Palnatoki Acknowledges His Arrow
12. The Founding of Jomsborg
13. Of Earl Strut-Harold and Veseti and Their Sons
14. King Svein Arbitrates the Feud
15. Bui, Sigvaldi, and Vagn Join the Jomsvikings
16. Of Palnatoki's Death and Sigvaldi's Ambition
17. Sigvaldi Captures King Svein
18. The Vows of the Jomsvikings
19. Geirmund Escapes and Warns Earl Hakon
20. Preparations for the Battle
21. The Battle
22. The Aftermath
23. The Testing of the Jomsvikings
24. Of Vagn, Sigvaldi, and the Other Jomsvikings
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