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Olaf Geirstad-Alf

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Olaf Gudrødsson (c. 810 – c. 860), who was known after his death as Olaf Geirstad-Alf "Olaf, Elf of Geirstad" (Old Norse Ólaf Geirstaða Álfr), was a legendary petty king in Norway. [1]

23 relations: Óláfs saga helga, Þáttr Ólafs Geirstaða Alfs, Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Draugr, Elf, Flateyjarbók, Frederick York Powell, Gjerstad, Gokstad Mound, Gokstad ship, Gout, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Gudrød the Hunter, Halfdan the Black, Heimskringla, Hilda Ellis Davidson, Olaf II of Norway, Old Norse, Petty kingdom, Romerike, Yngling, Ynglinga saga, Ynglingatal.

Óláfs saga helga

Óláfs saga helga or the Saga of St.

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Þáttr Ólafs Geirstaða Alfs

"Þáttr Ólafs Geirstaða Alfs" is a þáttr, a short anecdotal story, about the mythical Norse king Olaf Geirstad-Alf.

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Þjóðólfr of Hvinir

Þjóðólfr of Hvinir (c.855–930) was a Norwegian skald.

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Draugr

The draugr or draug (draugr, plural draugar; modern draugur, dreygur and Danish, Swedish, and draug), also called aptrganga or aptrgangr, literally "again-walker" (afturganga) is an undead creature from Norse mythology.

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Elf

An elf (plural: elves) is a type of human-shaped supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore.

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Flateyjarbók

Flateyjarbók is an important medieval Icelandic manuscript.

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Frederick York Powell

Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904), was an English historian and scholar.

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Gjerstad

Gjerstad is a municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Gokstad Mound

The Gokstad Mound (Norwegian: Gokstadhaugen) is a large burial mound at Gokstad Farm in Sandefjord (formerly Sandar municipality) in Vestfold County, Norway.

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Gokstad ship

The Gokstad ship is a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway.

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Gout

Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint.

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Guðbrandur Vigfússon

Guðbrandur Vigfússon, known in English as Gudbrand Vigfusson, (13 March 1827 – 31 January 1889) was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century.

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Gudrød the Hunter

Gudrød the Hunter (Old Norse: Guðrøðr veiðikonungr, Norwegian: Gudrød Veidekonge, literally Gudrod Hunter-king), also known as Gudrød the Magnificent (Old Norse: enn gǫfugláti, Norwegian: den gjeve), is a legendary character portrayed in the Norse sagas as a Norwegian petty king in the early 9th century.

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Halfdan the Black

Halfdan the Black (Old Norse: Halfdanr Svarti) (&ndash) was a ninth-century king of Vestfold.

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Heimskringla

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas.

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Hilda Ellis Davidson

Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson (born Hilda Roderick Ellis, 1 October 1914 – January 2006) was an English antiquarian and academic, writing in particular on Germanic paganism and Celtic paganism.

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Olaf II of Norway

Olaf II Haraldsson (995 – 29 July 1030), later known as St.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Petty kingdom

A petty kingdom is a kingdom described as minor or "petty" by contrast to an empire or unified kingdom that either preceded or succeeded it (e.g. the numerous kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England unified into the Kingdom of England in the 10th century, or the numerous Gaelic kingdoms of Ireland as the Kingdom of Ireland in the 16th century).

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Romerike

Romerike is a traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway.

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Yngling

The Ynglings were the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty, originating from Sweden.

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Ynglinga saga

Ynglinga saga is a legendary saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson about 1225.

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Ynglingatal

Ynglingatal is a Skaldic poem cited by Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, the first saga of Snorri's Heimskringla.

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Olaf Geirstad-Elf, Olaf Geirstad-alf, Olaf Gudrodsson, Olaf Gudrødsson, Olav of Geirstad, Ólaf Geirstaða Álfr.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Geirstad-Alf

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