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 final part 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. (The first was published in 1993, the second in 1994.) The third part includes fragments of the sagas about Magnus the Good, about Harald Sigurdarson, about Olaf the Quiet, about Magnus Barefoot, about the sons of Magnus Barefoot, about Hakon Broadshouldered, about Magnus Erlingsson, about Sverrir and Hakon Hakonarson according to all surviving editions. The chronological coverage of the material is from the middle of the 11th to the middle of the 13th century. For historians, philologists.

CONTENTS: Preface (5). Introduction (9). Chapter 1. The Saga of Magnus the Good (39). Chapter 2. The saga of Harald Sigurdarson (89).Chapter 3. The saga of Olaf the Quiet, the saga of Magnus the 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 (161).Chapter 4 Saga of Sverrir (184). Chapter 5. Sturla Thordarson. “The Saga of Hakon Hákonarson” (191).APPENDICES (219).I. Monk Theodric. "The History of the Ancient Norwegian Kings" (219).II. “The Legendary Saga of Saint Olaf” (223). III. The final chapters of the “Great Saga of Olav Tryggvason” (224). IV. "The Orkney Saga" (226).V. “The Saga of the Knüttlings” (231).VI. “Review of the sagas of the Danish kings” (246).VII. “The Saga of the Guts” (251).VIII. “A Strand about Heming Aslaksson” (252).IX. “Vis of Joy” by Harald Sigurdarson in Russian translations and arrangements (255). Ethnogeographical reference book (273). List of abbreviations (292). Bibliography (300). Indexes (A.V. Smirnov) (335). Name index (335). Ethnogeographical index (347).Summary (354).List of diagrams, tables, illustrations and maps (360).