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 the second part of the planned three-volume publication of information from Icelandic royal sagas about the peoples of the Eastern Baltic states, Ancient Rus' and the Russian North. (The first was published in 1993.) The second part includes fragments of the “Saga of Saint Olaf” according to all surviving editions. Chronological coverage of the material - the first third of the 11th century. For historians, philologists.

CONTENTS: Preface (5). INTRODUCTION (9). Old Scandinavian literature about St. Olaf (9). Chronology of the “Saga of St. Olaf” ( 14). Information about Eastern Europe in the “Saga of Saint Olaf” (23). TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS (29).§1. “REVIEW OF THE SAGAS ABOUT THE NORWEGIAN KINGS” (29).Text (33).Translation (34).§2. “THE ANCIENT SAGA ABOUT SAINT OLAVE” (34).Text (36).Translation (37).§3. “THE LEGENDARY SAGA OF SAINT OLAVE” (38).Text (40).Translation (42).§4. “BEAUTIFUL SKIN” (46).Text (48).Translation (50).§5. SNORRI STURLUSON. “A SEPARATE SAGA ABOUT OLAVE THE SAINT”, “CIRCLE OF THE EARTH” (53). Text (59). Translation (70).§6. “THE BOOK FROM THE FLAT ISLAND” (83).Text (85).Translation (86).§7. “THE STORY ABOUT EYMUND HRINGSSON” (87).Text (91).Translation (104).APPENDICES (121).I. "History of Norway" (121).II. Monk Theodric. "The History of the Ancient Norwegian Kings" (123).III. "The Acts of St. Olaf, King and Martyr" (126). IV. "Ancient Norse Book of Sermons" (130).V. “The Great Saga of Olav Tryggvason” (133).VI. “The Saga of the Knüttlings” (136).VII. “The Saga of the Guts” (138).COMMENTARY (140).Motive 1. Olav Haraldsson’s attack on Eisyslu (Saaremaa) (1008) (140).Motive 2. Prophetess in Austrweg (on the Eastern Route) (c. 1012) (143).Motive 3. The campaign of Earl Svein to Austrveg (1015) (144).Motive 4. The campaigns of Eyvind Turiego Horn to Austrweg (c. 1017) (147).Motive 5. The voyage of Gudleik Gardsky in Gardariki (to Rus') (1017) (149).Motive 6. About the possessions of the Swedish kings in Austrweg (151).Motive 7. Matchmaking and marriage of Yaritsleiv (Yaroslav the Wise) to Ingigerd, daughter of Olav of Sweden (late 1018- 1019) (154).Motive 8. The Strand of Eymund Hringsson (161).Motive 9. The trip of Karli, Gunnstein and Thorir the Dog to Bjarmaland (1026) (174).Motive 10. Flight of Olav Haraldsson to Gardariki (1029 (178).Motive 11. Olav's healing of a boy with an abscess in his throat in Gardariki (181).Motive 12. Olav Haraldsson's departure from Gardariki (1030) (182).Motive 13. Olav's visits to Ingigerd (187) .Motive 14. The verse of the skald Sigvat Thordarson about the holiness of Olav and his miracle in Gard (188).Motive 15. The miracle of the icon of St. Olav during the fire in Holmgard (Novgorod) (189).Motive 16. The miraculous healing of a dumb slave in the church of St. . Olava in Holmgard (191).ETHNOGEOGRAPHICAL INDEX (194).LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS (213).BIBLIOGRAPHY (220).INDEX (247).NAME INDEX (247).ETHNOGEOGRAPHICAL INDEX (251).