The book is the next edition of the collection “Ancient Sources on the History of the Peoples 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 the first part of a planned three-volume publication of information about the Icelandic royal sagas about the peoples of the Eastern Baltic states, Ancient Rus' and the Russian North. It includes fragments of the Ynglinga Saga, the Saga of Harald the Fairhair, the Saga of Hakon the Good, the Saga of Harald Grayskin and the Saga of Olav Tryggvason from all surviving editions of these sagas. Chronological coverage of the material - from ancient times to 1000. For historians, philologists.

CONTENTS: Preface (5). Introduction (9). Chapter 1. The Saga of the Ynglings (44). Chapter 2. The Saga of Harald Fairhair (73).1. “Beautiful Skin” (74).2. "Circle of the Earth" “The Saga of Harald Fairhair” (78).3. “The Great Saga of Olav Tryggvason” (87).3.1. The initial chapters of the “great saga of Olav Tryggvason” (87).3.2. “The Strand of Harald Fairhair” by FLAT (88).Chapter 3. The Saga of Hakon the Good (95).1. “Beautiful Skin” (97).2. "Circle of the Earth" “The Saga of Hakon the Good” (100).3. "The Great Saga of Olav Tryggvason." Initial chapters (103).Chapter 4. The Saga of Harald Graypelt (105).1. “Beautiful Skin” (106).2. "Circle of the Earth" “The Saga of Harald Greypelt” (110).3. "The Great Saga of Olav Tryggvason." Initial chapters (115).Chapter 5. The saga of Olav Tryggvason (117).1. “Review of the sagas of the Norwegian kings” (120).2. “The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason” by Odd the Monk (122).2.1. “The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason” by the monk Odd - edition A (124).2.2. “The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason” by the monk Odd - edition S (142).2.3. “The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason” by the monk Odd - edition U (150).3. “Beautiful Skin” (151).4. "Circle of the Earth" “The Saga of Olav Tryggvason” (154).5. “The Great Saga of Olav Tryggvason” (164).Commentary (185).APPENDICES (219).I. "History of Norway" (219).II. Monk Theodric. "The History of the Ancient Norwegian Kings" (221).III. “The Saga of the Skjoldungs” (223). IV. "The Jomsviking Saga" (226).V. "The Orkney Saga" (227).VI. “The Saga of the Faroese” (229).VII. “The Saga of the Knüttlings” (232).VIII. “The Legendary Saga of Saint Olaf” (234).IX. Snorri Sturluson. “A separate saga about Saint Olaf” (235).X. “The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson” (240).XI. “The Saga of the Guts” (242). Ethnogeographical reference book (244). List of abbreviations (260). Bibliography (266). Indexes (291). Name index (291). Ethnogeographical index (296).