The Glælognskviða is a poem scaldic composed towards 1030 by the Scalde Icelandic Þórarinn loftunga in the honor of Sveinn Alfífuson, which directed the Norway then. It is there however mainly question of the miracles of Saint Óláfr.

In 1028, the king de Danemark and of England Knútr Large the seized Norway whose king, Óláfr Haraldsson, had to flee. Óláfr tried to reconquer its kingdom but it was overcome and killed with the Bataille of Stiklarstaðir (1030). Knútr then designated his/her son, Sveinn Alfífuson, which controlled until there Jómsborg, to reign on Norway. Óláfr had endeavoured, during its reign, to christianize its country, and, after its death, he was very quickly regarded as a saint and a worship was returned to him with Niðaróss (Trondheim), in the church where its relics had been transported.

They are these event which is evoked in the Glælognskviða , whose ten stanzas in Kviðuháttr were preserved. It is initially question of the return of Sveinn and its men to Denmark then of his establishment in Norway (str. 1-2) . The scalde evokes then Óláfr, the saint king, from now on with the kingdom of heaven (3-4) . Then several miracles are enumerated: hair and nails of Óláfr still push, as if it were always in life (5) , the bells sound themselves (6) and candles ignite all alone (7) , deaf persons and blind men are cured (8) . Þórarinn exhorts finally Sveinn to request Óláfr that it grants to him to reign on Norway, and that it intercedes near God so that it gives to the country “prosperity and peace” ( ár ok friðr ) (9-10) .

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• the '' Glælognskviða '' as old man norrois.