Morkinskinna is an Old Norse kings` saga, relating the history of Norwegian kings from approximately 1025 to 1157. The saga was written in Iceland around 1220, and has been preserved in a manuscript from around 1275. The name Morkinskinna means `mouldy parchment` and is originally the name of the manuscript book in which the saga has been prese......
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(from the article `Scandinavian literature`) ...or sagas, of Norwegian kings, written in the vernacular in Norway, was particularly influential. The Fagrskinna (`Fine Skin`) covered the same ... ...which was compiled c. 1180, and two vernacular histories, also written in Norway, the so-called Ágrip (c. 1190) and Fagrski...
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