The book is the next edition of the collection “Ancient Sources on the History of Eastern Europe”, the initiative to publish which belongs to corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vladimir Terentyevich Pashuto (1918–1983). This is a corrected and expanded reissue in one volume of a three-volume publication of information about the Icelandic royal sagas about the peoples of the Eastern Baltic states, Ancient Rus' and the Russian North (published in 1993, 1994 and 2000). BRIEF CONTENTS: Preface (5). Introduction (9). Chapter 1. “The Saga of the Ynglings” (63). Chapter 2. “The Saga of Harald Fairhair” (93). Chapter 3. “The Saga of Hakon the Good” (107). Chapter 4. “The Saga of Harald Grayskin” (114 ).Chapter 5. “The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason” (123).Chapter 6. “The Saga of Saint Olaf” (229).Chapter 7. “The Saga of Magnus the Good” (385).Chapter 8. “The Saga of Harald Sigurdarson” ( 427).Chapter 9. “The Saga of Olaf the Quiet”, “The Saga of Magnus Barefoot”, “The Saga of the Sons of Magnus”, “The Saga of Magnus the Blind and Harald Gilli”, “The Saga of Hakon the Broadshouldered”, “The Saga of Magnus Erlingsson "(494). Chapter 10. “The Saga of Sverrir” (517). Chapter 11. Sturla Thordarson. “The Saga of Hakon Hákonarson” (523).Appendices (545).Ethnogeographical reference book (635).Sources, literature, abbreviations (656).Name index (720).Ethnogeographical index (753).