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Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda
Legendary Sagas of the Northland
~ "An acquisitive and highly eclectic genre,”
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English Translations & Scholarship A literal translation of the title has been provided if one is lacking.
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Translators & Editions |
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The Saga of Aun the Bow-bender
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Shaun F.D. Hughes
Larson Willard |
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W. Bryant Bachman, |
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Herrauds och Bosa Saga (1666) by Olaf Verelius
Die Bósa-saga in zwei fassungenedited by Otto Luitpold Jiriczek, 1893.
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Excerpt from chapter 12
Bosi and Herraud |
Pálsson and Edwards |
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*mentions 3
treasures kept in the underworld: a cloak that cannot burn, a
horn that cannot be emptied, and a chess set that plays itself. |
Egil and Asmund
'The Brothers' Pact' (chs. 6-7); 'A Giant Outwitted' (chs. 9-10)
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Pálsson and Edwards
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"Eirik the Far-Traveller’s Saga"
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Frá Fornjóti ok hans ættmönnum
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"Of Fornjot and his Kinsmen"
Fundinn
Noregr from the Orkneyingers' saga
Commentary: "On the origin of the Vanir and Alfar
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George W. Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen on the British Isles. 1887-94, Orkneyingers Saga, III, Appendix A, pp. 333-335, 1894
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The saga was adapted into a dramatic Swedish poem by Esaias Tegnér in 1825 and translated as: |
The Story of Fridthjof the Bold
The Story of Fridthjof the Bold
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William Morris,
John Sephton, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary & Philosophical Society, Volumes 48-49, 1893-94 |
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Gautreks saga
og Gjafa-Refs |
*Gautrek’s Saga
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Pálsson and Edwards
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The Göngu-Hrólfssaga: a study in Old Norse philologyby Jacob Wittmer Hartmann
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Pálsson and Edwards |
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The Saga of Halfdan, Brana’s Foster Son
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Robert Hannah 1981
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George L. Hardman
Pálsson and Edwards |
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An excerpt (Chapters 10-13) telling the tale behind the Ancient Swedish Ballad
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Stolt Herr Alf A Medieval Swedish Ballad |
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Helgi Thorisson's Story
'Helgi and the Women of the Otherworld' |
Pálsson and Edwards
Jacqueline Simpson |
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Hervarar Saga (1671) Olof Verelius
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The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek
The Saga of King Heiðrek the Wise
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Nora Kershaw Christopher Tolkien, The Saga of King Heiðrek the Wise, 1960 |
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*Hjalmer and Ölvir’s Saga
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Ralph O’Connor |
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Pálsson and Edwards, Hrolf Gautreksson: A Viking
Romance, 1972 |
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The Saga of Hrólf Kraki King Hrolf and his Champions
The Saga of Hrolf Kraki and his Champions
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Stella M. Mills, The Saga of Hrólf Kraki, 1933 Gwyn Jones in Eirik the Red and other Icelandic sagas pp. 221-318, 1961
W. Bryant Bachman, Jr. & Gudmundar Erlingsson
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Nora Kershaw
W. Bryant Bachman
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*Huldar saga:
Apocryphal— no known text. Described in
Sturlunga saga as a story
"about a great troll-woman".
There exists, however, a Huldar saga in three recensions, all of which date from the 18th century. Recension I, a late 18th century mss., was published in Danish. Recension II, ascribed to Jón Espólin, was printed in Icelandic. These probably have no connection to the ancient saga. |
Huld. Fragment of a romantic tale translated from the Old
Scandinavian
in Skandinaviske
Literatur-Selskabs Skrifter. I. Bd. pp. 262-334. Die Huldar Saga (scanned version, poor quality). |
Capt. W.H.F. Abrahamson, 1805
Konrad Mauer, 1894 |
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The Saga of Illugi, Grid’s Foster-son
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W. Bryant Bachman |
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with
Old Norse Facing
Text translation
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Chris Van Dyke, 2003
Margaret Schlauch
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George L. Hardman |
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Fragment of a Saga about Certain Early
Kings in Denmark and Sweden
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George L. Hardman |
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George L. Hardman |
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Sörla þáttur eða Héðins saga ok Högna
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Sörli’s Tale or Hedin and Högni’s Saga
"The Sörla Þáttr" (First Chapter Only)
Sorli's Story
Sorli's Tale, or the Saga of Hedin
& Hogni
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Eirikur Magnusson & William Morris
Nora Kershaw
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"Toki Tokason’s Tale"
Toki's Story
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W. Bryant Bachman, Jr. & Gudmundar Erlingsson
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*‘Völsunga saga, Ragnars saga and Romance in Old Norse: revisiting relationships’, Carolyne Larrington |
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*2003 Galina Glazyrina
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"The Saga of Yngvar the Far-Traveller" The Saga of Yngvar the Explorer
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W. Bryant Bachman |
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The Sagas of Ragnar Loðbrók, |
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Rasmus Anderson & Jón Bjarnason |
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George L. Hardman
Pálsson and Edwards
Jacqueline Simpson |
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*Arrow-Odd
Fulvio Ferrari (Università degli Studi di Trento) : Gods, Warlocks and Monsters in Örvar-Odds saga |
Pálsson and Edwards
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Völsa Þáttr |
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Þjalar-Jóns Saga
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Þjalar-Jóns saga: A Translation and Introduction
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Alaric Hall (2015)
Cecilia White (2016)
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REFERENCES: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda A Bibliography of Manuscripts, Editions, Translations, and Secondary Literature. Compiled by M.J. Driscoll & Silvia Hufnagel |
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SCHOLARSHIP |
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General Scholarship: Gudbrand Vigfusson, "Mythical
Sagas" in Sturlunga saga, 1874, pp. cxciv-cxcvi.
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The Thirteenth International Saga Conference: [*][**] Durham and York, 6th-12th, August 2006 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, Háskóli Íslands) : On Supernatural Motifs in the FornaldarsögurDavid Ashurst (University of Durham) : Imagining Paradise Ásdís Egilsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : The Fantastic Reality: Hagiography, Miracles and Fantasy Massimiliano Bampi, Between Tradition and Innovation: The Story of Starkaðr in Gautreks saga
Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) :
Poetry and
Fornaldarsögur
2006 Edel Porter Skaldic Poetry: Making the World Fantastic Alexey Eremenko (University of Moscow) : The Dual World of the Fornaldarsögur Fulvio Ferrari (Università degli Studi di Trento) : Gods, Warlocks and Monsters in Örvar-Odds saga Galina Glazyrina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : Dragon Motifs in Yngvars saga víðförla Karl G. Johansson (Universitetet i Oslo) : Hervarar Saga's Stanzas and the Manuscript that Met the Reader Rory McTurk, Kings and kingship in Viking Northumbria Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University): Perceptions of the Supernatural and Other Elements of the Fantastic in the FornaldarsögurElse Mundal, The Treatment of the Supernatural and the Fantastic in Different Saga Genres Sverrir Jakobsson (Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavík) : On the Road to Paradise. 'Austrvegr' in the Icelandic ImaginationJudy Quinn, The end of a fantasy: Sörla þáttr and the rewriting of the revivification myth Gunnhild Røthe, The Fictitious Figure of Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr in the Saga Tradition Christopher Sanders, Sturlaugs saga starfsama : Humour and Textual Archaeology Lars van Wezel (University of Leiden) :
Myths to Play with:
Bósa saga ok Herrauðs
Geraldine Barnes, Margin vs. centre: geopolitics in Nitida saga (a cosmographical comedy?) Ingvil Brügger Budal, A Translation of the Fantastic Vera Johanterwage (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): The Use of Magic Spells and Objects in the Icelandic Riddarasögur
Inna Matyushina,
Magic Mirrors, Monsters, Maiden-kings (the Fantastic in
Riddarasögur)
Heathen Religion:
Christopher Abram, Snorri’s Invention of Hermóðr’s helreið Yvonne S. Bonnetain, Riding the Tree Jamie Cochrane, Land-spirits and Iceland’s Fantastic Pre-conversion Landscape Cyril de Pins, The Fantastical Theology of Snorri Sturluson : A Reading of the Prologue of Snorra Edda Amy C. Eichhorn-Mulligan, Contextualizing Old Norse - Icelandic Bodies Thor Ewing, ‘í litklæðum’ – Coloured Clothes in Medieval Scandinavian Literature and Archaeology Oren Falk, Fragments of Fourteenth-century Icelandic Folklore Frog, Recognizing Mythic Images in Fantastic Literature : Reading Baldrs draumar 12-14
Signe Horn Fuglesang,
Iconographic traditions and models in Scandinavian imagery Terry Gunnell, How Elvish Were The Álfar? Eldar Heide, Spirits Through Respiratory Passages Ingunn Ásdísardóttir, Frigg and Freyja: One Great Goddess or Two? Judith Jesch, Norse Myth in Medieval Orkney
Merrill Kaplan,
Out-Thoring Thor in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta Annette Lassen, Hrafnagaldur Óðins / Forspjallsljóð: Et antikvarisk digt? [English] Emily Lyle, A Temporal Triad in Three Sagas Agneta Ney, The Edge of Water in Old Norse Myth and Reality Astrid E.J. Ogilvie, Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders Jens Peter Schjødt, The Notion of Berserkir and the Relation between Óðinn and Animal Warriors Gro Steinsland, The Fantastic Future and the Norse Sibyl of Völuspá Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen, The Double Scene in Performance: Deictic Blending in Völuspá?
Clive Tolley,
The Historia Norwegiae as a Shamanic Source
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Uppsala, 9th–15th, August 2009
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