The topic Agrip is discussed in the following articles:

Icelandic literature

  • TITLE: Icelandic literature
    SECTION: The sagas
    ...from Ísleifr to Kloengr. In the late 12th century several short histories of Norwegian kings were taken from Norway to Iceland, where they influenced Icelandic historians. The Ágriþ, a summary of the histories, or sagas, of Norwegian kings, written in the vernacular in Norway, was particularly influential. The Fagrskinna (“Fine...

tradition of kings’ saga

  • TITLE: saga (literature)
    SECTION: Kings’ sagas
    ...of the earlier kings of Norway include two Latin chronicles of Norwegian provenance, one of which was compiled circa 1180, and two vernacular histories, also written in Norway, the so-called Ágrip (c. 1190) and Fagrskinna (c. 1230). The Icelandic Morkinskinna (c. 1220) deals with the kings of Norway from 1047 to 1177; an outstanding feature of it...