[8] Grenmarr ‘Langesundsfjorden’: Lit. ‘sea of the Grenir’, Lat. Granii, a Norse tribe mentioned by Jordanes (Getica §24; see Andersson 1998a, 589). That tribe inhabited Grenland, a territory in south-eastern Norway located between Vestfold and Telemark. Grenmarr is known above all as the site of the famous naval battle of Nesjar, in which Óláfr Haraldsson defeated Jarl Sveinn Hákonarson and his allies (see ÓHHkr chs 46-50, ÍF 27, 58-67; Sigv NesvI).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- Andersson, Thorsten. 1998a. ‘Granii’. In RGA, 12, 589-90.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Óláfs saga helga (in Heimskringla)’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=152> (accessed 7 May 2024)
- Russell Poole 2012, ‘ Sigvatr Þórðarson, Nesjavísur’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 555. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1357> (accessed 7 May 2024)