Nóregs konungatal
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Nóregs konungatal[note 1] (List of Norwegian Kings) is an Icelandic skaldic poem. Composed around 1190, the poem is preserved in the 14th-century Flateyjarbók manuscript. It is based on the lost historical work of Sæmundr fróði and is the best extant testimony on the scope of Sæmundr's work.[1] Consisting of 83 stanzas, the poem was composed for the influential Icelander Jón Loftsson and celebrates his descent from the Norwegian royal line.[2] The poem is modelled after the earlier genealogical poems Háleygjatal and Ynglingatal,[3] with which it shares the metre of kviðuháttr. It is thought to contain the central points of Sæmundr's lost work, especially its chronological information.[4]