Norna-Gests þáttr has a brief mention of the king of Denmark and Sweden, Sigurd Hring (ruling in the mid-8th century), fighting against the Curonians and the Kvens: > Sigurd Ring (Sigurðr) was not there, since he had to defend his land, Sweden > (Svíþjóð), since Curonians (Kúrir) and Kvens (Kvænir) were raiding > there.Norna-Gests þáttr, chapter 7. . See also English translation.
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Chapters 11-20, Gests saga Bárðarsonar, are about Bárðr's son Gestr. He is named after the name his father gave, which means "guest".Anderson pp. 251, 252; Guðbrandr Vigfússon p. 24 (Chapter 11).
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Among the Romans, the heroes assembled by Meleager for the Calydonian hunt provided a theme of multiple nudes in striking action, to be portrayed frieze-like on sarcophagi. Meleager's story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests þáttr.
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His principal work is on Thomas Cantilupe.The Life and Gests of S. Thomas Cantilvpe, Bishop of Hereford, and some time before L. Chancellor of England. Extracted out of the authentique Records of his Canonization as to the maine part, Anonymous, Matt. Paris, Capgrave, Harpsfeld, and others.
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Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈbɒːrðar saɣa ˈsnæːˌfɛlːsˌɒːsː], ) or Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss ok Gests is a late saga of the Icelanders with legendary elements. It falls into two sections, one about Bárðr and the other about his son, Gestr; the first part takes place in Snæfellsnes in Iceland.
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Marianne Kalinke, "Interrogating Genre in the Fornaldarsögur: Round-Table Discussion", Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2 (2006) 275-96: "Helga þáttr Þórissonar, Norna-Gests þáttr, Sörla þáttr, and Tóka þáttr Tókasonar are conversion þættir." Godmund, who varies in characterisation in different Old Norse works, is here "the enemy of the virtuous Christian King Olaf".Hermann Pálsson and Edwards, p. 13.
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In Norna-Gests þáttr, it is said that Sigurd Ring was very old when he sent his son-in-law, the son of Gandalf, to request the Gjukungs, Gunnar and Högne to pay tribute. This was promptly refused. The sons of Gandalf then asked Sigurd Ring to help them fight against the Gjukungs and their renowned ally Sigurd Fafnisbani. Sigurd Ring could not help them in person, as he was busy fighting against ravaging Curonians and Kœnir.
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At 16 he sang with Sigurður Ólafsson and by the age of 20 had his own albums. In 1955-1956, he became vocalist of Hljómsveit Svavars Gests (a relation that would go on until 1960) and in 1956, became a singer with KK sextet that continued until 1959. At the time, he released albums of his own. After spending two years abroad, he returned in 1964, he rejoined Svavar briefly, before forming his own band in 1965 when Svavar's orchestra stopped performing.
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In Norna-Gests þáttr, the account of Starkad takes place not long after the victory at the Battle of the Brávellir. The account deals with a meeting between Starkad and the hero Sigurd Dragonslayer. The old Norna-Gest told that during the time when he was with Sigurd Dragonslayer, the Swedish king Sigurd Hring demanded tribute from Sigurd and his people. When Sigurd refused, the king of Sweden sent an army to subdue him, led by the sons of Gandalf.
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Their bodies stay buried until discovered by Olaf Tryggvason, who has them exhumed and has a church built in dedication to them. Together with Sörla þáttr, Tóka þáttr Tókasonar, Norna-gests þáttr and Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts, the tale is part of a subgenre of "pagan-contact þættir". This subgenre (without the inclusion of Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts) was first identified in The tale is recorded in Oddr Snorrason’s Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and the later Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta. Oddr’s work was originally composed in Latin and only survives in Old Norse-Icelandic translation. Oddr’s work in turn derives from an earlier Latin account, Acta sanctorum in Selio.
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The Sagas of Icelanders, Bishops' sagas, and contemporary sagas, whose portrayal of the supernatural is generally restrained, rarely mention álfar, and then only in passing. But although limited, these texts provide some of the best evidence for the presence of elves in everyday beliefs in medieval Scandinavia. They include a fleeting mention of elves seen out riding in 1168 (in Sturlunga saga); mention of an álfablót ("elves' sacrifice") in Kormáks saga; and the existence of the euphemism ganga álfrek ('go to drive away the elves') for "going to the toilet" in Eyrbyggja saga. The Kings' sagas include a rather elliptical but widely studied account of an early Swedish king being worshipped after his death and being called Ólafr Geirstaðaálfr ('Ólafr the elf of Geirstaðir'), and a demonic elf at the beginning of Norna-Gests þáttr.
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Erić's opus includes different genres. Already in his early works he expresses a tendency towards clarity, formal perspicuity and the synthesis of a "different images", establishing the bases of his own musical expression in the choreographic piece for orchestra Behind the Sun's Gate and Concerto for Orchestra and Soloists. The need to shape his musical expression as his own synthesis of total sound surrounding him, already evident in Mirage, is developed by in the compositions Erić wrote about two years later: the ballet Elizabeth the Princess of Montenegro and the choir Subito. His work during the 80s is marked by three key compositions: Off – as music beyond his own vocabulary until that time, Cartoon – as a play of basic emotional clichés and rudimentary gests of movement and Talea Konzertstück – as a "gliding" towards open sensitivity.
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Oddr's þáttr is classified in the subgenre of "pagan-contact þættir" alongside Sörla þáttr, Tóka þáttr Tókasonar, Norna- gests þáttr and Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts; see also ; this subgenre (without the inclusion of Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts) was first identified in According to the legend, Sunniva was the heir of an Irish kingdom, but had to flee when an invading heathen king wanted to marry her. She and her brother Alban (post- Reformation accounts add two sisters, called Borni and Marita) and their followers settle the previously uninhabited islands of Selja and Kinn in Norway during the rule of the pagan Jarl Hákon Sigurðarson (r. 962-995). Their Norwegian neighbors on the mainland suspect the Christians of stealing sheep and complain to Jarl Hákon. Hákon arrives on Selja with a group of armed men, intending to kill the inhabitants.
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