Tryggvaflokkr
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Tryggvaflokkr (the "Flokkr-poem of Tryggvi") was an Old Norse poem about Tryggve the Pretender, an 11th-century Viking chieftain who purported to be the son of Olaf Tryggvason and tried to conquer Norway in 1033. It is usually attributed to Sighvat Thordarson, a skald and court poet of Canute the Great. The only surviving portion of the poem is that quoted by Snorri Sturluson in the Heimskringla:
- For fame eager, forth fared
- from the north King Tryggve,
- whilst Svein from the south forth
- sailed to join the battle
- From fray not far was I.
- Fast they raised their banners
- Swiftly then-rang sword 'gainst
- sword-began the bloodshed.[1]
Notes
- ^ Hollander 536.
References
- Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. Lee Hollander, transl. Univ. of Texas Press, 2002.