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Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar

medieval Icelandic saga
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Summary

Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: legendary saga[3], saga[4]
  • Language of work or name: Old Norse[5]
  • Time period: Middle Ages[6]
  • Narrative motif: ogre's daughter killed together with her father[7], quest for unknown, vanished beloved[8], disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder[9]
  • Form of creative work: prose[10]

Why It Matters

Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Retrieved . sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Form of creative work → prose
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'no']
    Time period → Middle Ages
    Gnd id → 4498849-7
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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  2. 15w ago · Loenstock · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Language of work or name → Old Norse
    Instance of → —
    Narrative motif → ogre's daughter killed together with her father, quest for unknown, vanished beloved, disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Form of creative work: prose"
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