Fagrskinna
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The Fagrskinna is a Norse saga from the Fornmanna Sogur. An immediate source for the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson, it is a central text in the Old Norse genre of Kings’ sagas; It contains a thirteenth-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, including extensive citation of skaldic verses, some of them preserved nowhere else.
Fagrskinna contains allusions similar to those in Heimskringla concerning the Norwegian King Hakon and his upbringing at the English court of Athelstan.
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