The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason

The text of Hulda-Hrokkinskinna was printed in the sixth and seventh volumes of Fornmanna sögur in 1831 and 1832. Hulda-Hrokkinskinna, one of the kings' sagas, written after 1280, relates the history of the Norwegian kings from Magnús góði, who ascended to the throne in 1035, to Magnús Erlingsson, who died in 1177. The saga is thought to be based on Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla but supplemented by prose and poetry from a version of Morkinskinna which is no longer extant. Hulda-Hrokkinskinna is especially valuable in places where the preserved Morkinskinna manuscript is defective. It preserves eight verses of skaldic poetry found nowhere else. Some early commentators believed Heimskringla to be based on Hulda-Hrokkinskinna. This theory has recently been championed again with the argument that it leads to a simpler stemma for the manuscripts of the sagas.