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'''Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta''' or '''The Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason'''
is one of the kings' sagas, an extended biography of King Óláfr Tryggvason.
Composed around 1300 it takes ''Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar'' in Snorri Sturluson's ''Heimskringla'' as its base but expands the narrative greatly with content from the previous biographies of the king by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson as well as less directly related material.
The saga is preserved in a number of manuscripts which can be divided into two groups; an earlier redaction preserved in the manuscripts ''AM 53 fol.'', ''AM 54 fol.'', ''AM 61 fol.'', ''Bergsbók'' and ''Húsafellsbók''. The second group is a younger redaction preserved in ''AM 62 fol.'' and ''Flateyjarbók''.
The saga incorporates a number of ''þættir'' and shorter sagas, some preserved nowhere else.

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★ Fix, Hans (1998). ''Snorri Sturluson''. Walter de Gruyter. 3110161826

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★ The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason An 1895 English translation

★ Hèr hefr upp Sögu Ólafs konúngs Tryggvasonar Text based primarily on ''AM 61 fol.''