PRELIMINARY REMARKS

This saga might be called Gunhild's Saga, as she is the chief person in

it. The reign of King Harald and Earl Hakon is more fully described

in the next saga, that is, Olaf Trygvason's. Other literature on this

epoch:

"Agrip" (chap. 8), "Historia Norvegia", (p. 12), "Thjodrek" (chap. 5),

"Saxo" (pp. 479-482), "Egla" (chaps. 81, 82), "Floamanna" (chap.

12), "Fareyinga" (chaps. 2, 4, 10), "Halfred's Saga" (chap. 2), "Hord

Grimkelsons Saga" (chaps. 13, 18), "Kormak" (chaps. 19-27), "Laxdaela"

(chaps. 19-21), "Njala" (chaps, 3-6).

The skalds of this saga are:--Glum Geirason, Kormak Agmundson, Eyvind

Skaldaspiller, and Einar Helgason Skalaglam.

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