Portal:Old Norse literature

General works

 * "Old Norse Literature", chapter 1 of History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North (1884) by F. Winkel Horn, translated by Rasmus B. Anderson

Literary works

 * Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, a collection of tales about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings.
 * The Laxdaela Saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas.
 * Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.
 * Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology.
 * The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason, a king's saga which relates the life of king Olaf I of Norway.
 * The Story of the Volsungs, a legendary saga of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan.