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Apart from making use of skaldic poetry and oral tradition, the author drew extensively on written texts of the kings' sagas. The following sources have been proposed as having been the most decisive:
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is a central text in the genre of kings' sagas. It contains a vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, from the career of
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proper was destroyed by fire, but copies of it and another
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a lost synoptic work about the earliest Norwegian kings (
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Jakobsen, Alfred (1970), "Om Fagrskinna-forfatteren",
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Index

Old Norse
[ˈfɑɣrˌskinːɑ]
Icelandic
[ˈfaːɣʏrˌscɪnːa]
parchment
kings' sagas
Heimskringla
skaldic verse
kings' sagas
vellum
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson
Halfdan the Black
Battle of Re
skaldic verses
Battle of Hjörungavágr
Battle of Svolder
Sæmundr fróði Sigfússon
Ágrip af Nóregs konunga sögum
Jómsvíkinga saga
Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar
Oddr Snorrason
Óláfs saga helga
Morkinskinna
Hryggjarstykki
Jónsson, Finnur
Fagrskinna. Nóregs Kononga Tal
Munch, P.A.
Unger, C. R.
Fagrskinna. Kortfattet Norsk Konge-saga

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