ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two aspects. The first involves the influence of Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum on the Old Icelandic Yngvars saga víðfǫrla, the oldest manuscripts of which are dated to the fifteenth century. The second considers the interpretations of the historical Yngvarr. The intertextual analysis presented below demonstrates that the most relevant connections relations may be grouped as follows: (1) an explicit relationship in the case of speculations about Yngvarr’s ancestry in historical research; (2) a strong relationships in the case of the Anund paraphrase and the saga’s chronology, which relies on Adam’s dating of King Óláfr Eiríksson’s death; (3) a fusion of elements from the Gesta and other sources in the case of the death-by-women motif and the episode referring to a Swedish King Haraldr that is to be found in the saga.
