Nóregs konungatal (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.Clover 2005, p. 199. Consisting of 83 stanzas, the poem was composed for the influential Icelander Jón Loftsson and celebrates his descent from the Norwegian royal line.Hoops 2003, p. 70. The poem is modelled after the earlier genealogical poems Háleygjatal and Ynglingatal,North 1997, p. 39. 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.Ekrem 2000, p. 12.
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Eysteinn Björnsson (2002). Index of Old Norse/Icelandic Skaldic Poetry. Published online at: https://web.archive.org/web/20060923215712/http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/skindex.html See in particular Nóregs konungatal at https://web.archive.org/web/20070305085907/http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/nktt.html from the editions of Finnur Jónsson and E. A. Kock.