A central text in the Old Norse genre of kings' sagas is translated here for the first time. It covers the history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries and throws light on Norwegian-Icelandic literary relations in the formative stage of saga writing.

Alison Finlay, D.Phil. (1994), University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of articles on Old Norse literature and translator of The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Men of Hitardale (Hisarlik, 2000).