The Enigma of Egill: The Saga, the Viking Poet, and Snorri Sturluson
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Translated by Victoria Gribb. Translation, revised and updated, of "Skáldið í skriftinni: Snorri Sturluson og "Egils saga"", by Torfi H. Tulinius, published 2004 by Hið Íslenzka Bókmenntafélag and Reykjavíkur Akademían. "Egils saga", composed some eight hundred years ago to relate the life and times of Egill Skallagrímsson, the Viking poet and Icelander of the tenth century, is a major prose narrative thought by many scholars to be written by Snorri Sturluson, the great medieval historiographer of Iceland. Essential elements for understanding "Egils saga" in its time and place include, among others, the settlement of Iceland, the relationship between Icelanders and Norwegian kings, and the Christianization of the Norse world as pagan beliefs receded. The saga, one of the longest and best-structured in the medieval Icelandic literary canon, is, in the words of Torfi Tulinius, a story "of how people create an image of their past to give meaning to what is happening in their lives or of those that surround them." In a close reading of the saga, Tulinius brings forth the complex relationship between structure and meaning in the saga, as well as hitherto unnoticed references to Scripture that suggest a Christian interpretation of the main protagonist's life. A careful analysis of Snorri Sturluson’s life and times allows Torfi to propose a context for a fuller perception of "Egils saga" as a great work of art. List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction 1 Part 1: The Object Analyzed Chapter 1: The Skeleton 17 Chapter 2: The Fabric of the Text 59 Chapter 3: What Is "Egils saga"? 147 Part 2: The Artifact in Context Chapter 4: Saga and Society 163 Chapter 5: The Saga in Context 211 Chapter 6: Mirror Writing of the Unconscious 275 Chapter 7: Finally: The Birth of a Genre 289 Bibliography Texts and Translations 295 Critical Studies 301 Index of Personal Names 321
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