ENGLISHICELANDIC

Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra. The Saga of Illugi, Gríður’s Foster-Son

By transl.) , Philip Lavender (ed.

Book information

Publisher
Viking Society for Northern Research
Year
2015
ISBN
0903521911, 9780903521918
Language
englishicelandic
Format
PDF
Filesize
688 kB (704908 bytes)
Pages
XXXVIII+64\104
Topic
Literature
Time added
2019-07-12 01:02:23

Description

"Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra" is a short "fornaldarsaga" whose earliest witness is a manuscript from the sixteenth century (AM 123 8vo). There are thirty-six other known manuscripts containing the Old Norse text produced between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The saga tells of Illugi, a promising young champion from Denmark, who has an adventure with a troll-woman named Gríður after the ship he is on is blown off course into the frozen north. Introduction v Men and the World vi Women and Monsters xi Words and Truth xxii The Text of this Edition xxix Regularisation xxx Manuscripts Containing the Text of "Illuga saga" xxxiii Bibliography and References xxxvi Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra 1 Chapter 1 / 2 Chapter 2 / 2 Chapter 3 / 6 Chapter 4 / 8 Chapter 5 / 10 Chapter 6 / 14 Glossary 18

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