Tryggvaflokkr

Tryggvaflokkr (the "Flokkr-poem of Tryggvi") was an Old Norse poem about Tryggve the Pretender, an 11th-century Viking chieftain who purported to be the son of Olaf Tryggvason and tried to conquer Norway in 1033. It is usually attributed to Sighvat Thordarson, a skald and court poet of Canute the Great. The only surviving portion of the poem is that quoted by Snorri Sturluson in the Heimskringla:

For fame eager, forth fared

from the north King Tryggve,

whilst Svein from the south forth

sailed to join the battle

From fray not far was I.

Fast they raised their banners

Swiftly then-rang sword 'gainst

sword-began the bloodshed.^[1]

Notes

1. Hollander 536.

References

• Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. Lee Hollander, transl. Univ. of Texas Press, 2002.