ÁGRIP
AFNÓREGSKONUNGAS¯GUMÁGRIPEDITED BY

M. J. DRISCOLLSECOND EDITIONVIKING SOCIETY
FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH
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BISHOPS IN EARLY ICELANDSAGAS TRANSLATED BYBISHOPS IN EARLY ICELAND

THEODORE M. ANDERSSONVIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH
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Lord and Lady –Bryti and Deigja
Some Historical and Etymological Aspectsof Family, Patronage and Slavery in Early
Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England

BY

STEFAN BRINK

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The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecturein Northern Studies
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17 March 2005

CLEMENS SAGA
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CLEMENS SAGA

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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF

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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JAMES EASSONJAMES EASSON (1833–1865) suffered from moredisadvantages than most men are able to bear. He
was an illegitimate orphan, and his seaman father died
before he himself was born. His mother died when he
was two, and he was brought up in Dundee in great
poverty by his only surviving relative, his widowed
grandmother. He attended only an elementary school
and a Sunday school, and worked most of his life as ahouse-painter in Dundee. He died at the age of 31 in
the Lunatic Asylum in Dundee. He left a small book ofverse, and had contributed to the Dundee PEOPLE’S
JOURNAL several other poems and a number ofarticles, sketches and short stories that in many cases
are illustrative of life in Victorian Dundee and show
great concern for the poor, the sick and those withdisabilities. He was a popular writer in his time andcame to be known as the PEOPLE’S POET. This bookincludes reprints of all Easson’s extant writings.

JAMES EASSON

THE DUNDEE PEOPLE’S POET
By

ANTHONY FAULKESTHORISDAL
DUNDEE
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Egils Saga
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BJARNI EINARSSONEINAR ÓLAFUR SVEINSSONTHE FOLK-STORIES OF ICELAND

THE FOLK-STORIESOF ICELAND

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GUTA SAGATHE HISTORY OF THE
GOTLANDERSGUTA SAGA

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Hávamál
EDITED BY D. A. H. EVANSHÁVAMÁLWITH

GLOSSAR Y
AND

INDEX
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HÁVAMÁLEDITED

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GLOSSAR Y
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INDEX
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H E RVA R A R S A G A
OK HEIÐREKS

WITH NOTES AND GLOSSARY
BY

G. TURVILLE-PETREINTRODUCTIONBY

CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN

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THE PASSION AND MIRACLES
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A HISTORY OF NORWAY

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HEIMSKRINGLA I

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The icelandic language

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THE BOOK OF THE ICELANDERSTHE STORY OF THE CONVERSION
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Fourteenth-Century Icelandic
Verse on the Virgin Mary
Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Verse

Drápa af Maríugrát
Vitnisvísur af Maríu
Maríuvísur I–III
Edited by

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MMI

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A NEW
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MICHAEL BARNES

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A NEW
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PART IGRAMMAR
THIRD EDITIONBYMICHAEL BARNES

VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH
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A NEW
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DANISH KINGS AND THE
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BYÓLAFUR HALLDÓRSSONVIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDONTEXT BY SNORRI STURLUSON
IN ÓLÁFS SAGA TRYGGVASONAREN MESTATEXT BY SNORRI STURLUSON

BYÓLAFUR HALLDÓRSSON

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OLD NORSE MADE NEW

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ESSAYS ON THE POST-MEDIEVAL RECEPTION OF
OLD NORSE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

EDITED BY

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THREE ICELANDIC OUTLAW SAGAS

university college london
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THREE ICELANDIC OUTLAW SAGAS

viking society for northern research

THE SAGA OF GISLITHE SAGA OF GRETTIRTHE SAGA OF HORD

A NEW INTRODUCTION TO OLD NORSE II

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VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH
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THE ORAL SOURCES OF ÓLÁFS SAGA HELGA IN HEIMSKRINGLA. Theodore
M. Andersson .....................................................................................................

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THE TROLLISH ACTS OF ÞORGRÍMR THE WITCH: THE MEANINGSOF TROLL AND ERGI IN MEDIEVAL ICELAND. Ármann Jakobsson ...........

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AMUSED BY DEATH? HUMOUR IN TRISTRAMS SAGA OK ÍSODDAR. Conrad
van Dijk ................................................................................................................

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Jón Hilmar Magnússon. Íslenzk-færeysk orðabók. (Michael Barnes) ................................
Sara M. Pons-Sanz. Norse-Derived Vocabulary in Late Old English Texts. Wulfstan’s
Works. A Case Study. (Alaric Hall) .............................................................................
Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees. Runic Amulets and Magic Objects. (Eldar Heide)
Pernille Hermann, Jens Peter Schjødt and Rasmus Tranum Kristensen (eds). Reflections
on Old Norse Myths. (Carolyne Larrington) .............................................................
Ingunn Ásdísardóttir. Frigg og Freyja—kvenleg goðmögn í heiðnum sið. (Jóhanna KatrínFriðriksdóttir) ..............................................................................................................
Tom Shippey (ed.). The Shadow-Walkers. Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous.
(Ármann Jakobsson) ..............................................................................................
Haki Antonsson. St Magnús of Orkney. A Scandinavian Martyr-Cult in Context.
(Carl Phelpstead) ........................................................................................................
Ólafur Halldórsson (ed.). Færeyinga saga. Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar eptir Odd munk
Snorrason. (Elizabeth Ashman Rowe) ......................................................................
Janet Bately and Anton Englert (eds). Ohthere’s Voyages. A Late 9th-Century Accountof Voyages along the Coasts of Norway and Denmark and its Cultural Context. (John
Hines) ......................................................................................................................
Alex Woolf. From Pictland to Alba 789–1070. (R. Andrew McDonald) .....................
Clare Downham. Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland. The Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014.
(Colmán Etchingham) ................................................................................................
R. Andrew McDonald. Manx Kingship in its Irish Sea Setting 1187–1229. KingR†gnvaldr and the Crovan Dynasty. (Rosemary Power) ............................................
Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor and Gareth Williams (eds). West Over Sea. Studies
in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300. A Festschrift in
Honour of Dr Barbara E. Crawford. (Christopher Callow) .......................................
Judy Quinn, Kate Heslop and Tarrin Wills (eds). Learning and Understanding in the Old
Norse World. Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross. (Roberta Frank) ...........
M. J. Driscoll (ed.). Fjórar sögur frá hendi Jóns Oddssonar Hjaltalín. Sagan af
Marroni sterka, Ágrip af Heiðarvíga sögu, Sagan af Zadig, Fimmbræðra saga.
(Andrew Wawn) ....................................................................................................
Jóna E. Hammer. Memoirs of an Icelandic Bookworm. (Tom Shippey) ..................
Robert E. Bjork (trans.). A Viking Slave’s Saga. Jan Fridegård’s Trilogy of Novels about
the Viking Age. Land of Wooden Gods, People of the Dawn and Sacrificial Smoke.
(Alison Finlay) .......................................................................................................

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MANSLAUGHTER AND MYSOGYNY: WOMEN AND REVENGE INSTURLUNGA SAGA. David Clark ............................................................................

25

CONTEXTUALISING LEIÐARVÍSIR: SANT’ AGNESE, THE CATACOMBS, THE
PANTHEON AND THE TIBER. Tommaso Marani ................................................

44

A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND. Derek Mathers

67

ALAN LAWRIE BINNS .....................................................................................

95

REVIEWS :Elizabeth Coatsworth. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. VIII: Western Yorkshire.
(John Hines) .............................................................................................................
Katherine Holman. The Northern Conquest. Vikings in Britain and Ireland. (Martin
Arnold) .....................................................................................................................
François-Xavier Dillmann. Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne. Études sur lareprésentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires
norroises. (Margaret Cormack) ................................................................................
Anthony Winterbourne. When the Norns have Spoken: Time and Fate in Germanic
Paganism. (Richard North) .......................................................................................
Carl Phelpstead. Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas. (Rory
McTurk) ...................................................................................................................
Jon Gunnar Jørgensen. The Lost Vellum Kringla. (Elizabeth Ashman Rowe) .............
Michael Chesnutt (ed.). Egils saga Skallagrímssonar. Bind III. C-redaktionen.
(Svanhildur Óskardóttir) ....................................................................................
Kevin J. Wanner. Snorri Sturluson and the Edda. The Conversion of Cultural Capitalin Medieval Scandinavia. (Patricia Pires Boulhosa) ..................................................
Klaus von See and Julia Zernack (eds). Þú ert vísust kvenna. Beatrice La Farge zum 60.
Geburtstag. (Lena Rohrbach) ...................................................................................
Stefan Brink and Neil Price (eds). The Viking World. (R. Andrew McDonald) ...........
Odd Einar Haugen (ed.), Astrid van Nahl (trans.). Altnordische Philologie. Norwegen
und Island. (Marvin Taylor) ....................................................................................

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GYLFAGINNING AND EARLY MEDIEVAL CONVERSION THEORY. Christopher
Abram....................................................................................................

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CONTENTS
How to Do Things with Tears. The Funeral of Magnús inn góði.
Erin Michelle Goeres .............................................................................................

5

Personae of the Performer in Hávamál. John McKinnell .......................

27

the Magical Power of Poetry. Nicolas Meylan ............................................

43

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Thor Ewing. Gods and worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world. (Richard
North) .....................................................................................................................
Martin Arnold. Thor. Myth to marvel. (Ilya Sverdlov) .............................................
Merrill Kaplan. Thou fearful guest. Addressing the past in four tales in Flateyjar­bók.
(Clive Tolley) ..........................................................................................................
Vincent Samson. Les Berserkir. Les guerriers-fauves dans la Scandinavie ancienne,
de l’Âge de Vendel aux Vikings (VIe–XIe siècle). (Ruarigh Dale) .........................
Þorbjörg Helgadóttir (ed.). Rómverja saga. (David Ashurst) ......................................
Mariane Overgaard (ed.). Hákonar saga Hárekssonar. (Katrina Attwood) ................
Slavica Ranković with Leidulf Melve and Else Mundal (eds). Along the oral–written
continuum. Types of texts, relations, and their implications. (Alaric Hall) ...........
Slavica Ranković (ed.). Modes of authorship in the Middle Ages. (Kate Heslop) ..
Robert Nedoma. Altisländisches Lesebuch. Ausgewählte Texte und Minimalwörterbuch
des Altisländischen. (Lena Rohrbach) ...................................................................
Klaus von See, Beatrice la Farge, Simone Horst and Katja Schulz. Kommentar zu den
Liedern der Edda 7. Heldenlieder: Atlakviða in grœnlenzka, Atlamál in grœnlenzko,
Frá Guðrúno, Guðrúnar­hv†t, Hamðismál. (David Clark) ....................................
Katja Schulz (ed.). Eddische Götter und Helden. Milieus und Medien ihrer Rezeption.
(David Clark) ..............................................................................................................
Klaus von See. Skalden. Isländische Dichter des Mittelalters. (Kate Heslop) .........
Rikke Malmros. Vikingernes syn på militær og samfund. Belyst gennem skjaldenes
fyrstedigtning. (Richard North) .............................................................................
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe. Vikings in the West. The legend of Ragnarr loðbrók andhis sons. (Rory McTurk) ........................................................................................
Svein­björn Rafnsson. Af fornum lögum og sögum. Fjórar ritgerðir um forníslenska
sögu. (Viðar Pálsson) .............................................................................................

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CONTENTS
HÁRBARÐSLJÓÐ: PARODY, PRAGMATICS AND THE SOCIO-MYTHIC CONTROVERSY.
Martin Arnold ...........................................................................................................................

5

THE CULT OF ST bLAISE IN ICELAND. Margaret Cormack ..............................................

27

THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIPLOMACY IN THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS OF SIGVATR ÞÓRÐARSON’S BERSÑGLISVÍSUR. Gareth Lloyd Evans ...................................

49

SNORRI VERSUS THE COPYISTS. AN INVESTIGATION OF A STYLISTIC TRAIT IN THE
MANUSCRIPT TRADITIONS OF EGILS SAGA, HEImSkRInGLA AND THE PRoSE
EddA. Haukur Þorgeirsson ....................................................................................................

61

TWO MAJOR GROUPS IN THE OLDER MANUSCRIPT TRADITION OF nÍTÍÐA SAGA.
Sheryl McDonald Werronen ....................................................................................................

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NORDIC MEDIEVAL TEXTS: bEYOND ‘LITERATURE’ AND ‘SOURCES’. REFLECTIONSON EXPANDING INTERDISCIPLINARY bORDER-ZONES. Lars boje Mortensen ............

95JÓNAS KRISTJÁNSSON .........................................................................................................

113Ármann Jakobsson. nine saga studies. The critical interpretation of the Icelandic sagas.
(Joanne Shortt butler) ...........................................................................................................
Kirsten Wolf. The legends of the saints in old norse–Icelandic prose. (Richard Cole) ..........
Georg C. brückmann. Altwestnordische Farbsemantik. (Anatoly Liberman) ............................
Odd Einar Haugen, bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen and Jonas Wellendorf (eds). Fj†ld veit honfrœða. Utvalde arbeid av Else mundal. (Kirsten Wolf) ........................................................
Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington (eds). Revisiting the Poetic Edda. Essays on old norse
heroic legend. (Michael Hart) .....................................................................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Terry Gunnell and Annette Lassen (eds). The nordic Apocalypse. Approaches to V†luspá
and nordic days of Judgement. (David H. Varley) ...............................................................
Seiichi Suzuki. The meters of old norse Eddic poetry. Common Germanic inheritance andnorth Germanic innovation. (Haukur Þorgeirsson) ..............................................................
Ursula Dronke (ed. and trans.). The Poetic Edda III. mythological poems. (John McKinnell) .....
Diana Whaley (ed.). Skaldic poetry of the Scandinavian middle Ages I. Poetry from the kings’
Sagas 1. From mythical times to c.1035. (Erin Michelle Goeres) .......................................
Sverrir Jakobsson, Þorleifur Hauksson and Tor Ulset (eds). Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar.
B†glunga saga. magnúss saga lagabœtis. (Edward Carlsson browne) ...................................
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir. medieval translations and cultural discourse. The movement of texts in
England, France and Scandinavia. (Erin Michelle Goeres) ..................................................
Karl G. Johansson and Rune Flaten (eds). Francia et Germania. Studies in Strengleikar andÞiðreks saga af Bern. (Sif Ríkharðsdóttir) .............................................................................
bjørn Poulsen and Søren Sindbæk (eds). Settlement and lordship in Viking and Early medieval
Scandinavia. (Chris Callow) .................................................................................................
John Sheehan and Donnchadh Ó Corráin (eds). The Viking Age. Ireland and the west. Papers fromthe proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18–27 August 2005. (Denis Casey)
benjamin T. Hudson (ed.). Familia and household in the medieval Atlantic province. (Helen
Imhoff) ...................................................................................................................................
Jette Arneborg, Georg Nyegaard and Orri Vésteinsson (eds). norse Greenland. Selected papers
from the Hvalsey Conference 2008. (Eleanor Rosamund barraclough) ..................................
Ann Preston-Jones and Elisabeth Okasha. Early Cornish sculpture. (John Hines) ...................
Lilla Kopár. Gods and settlers. The iconography of norse mythology in Anglo-Scandinavian
sculpture. (Victoria Whitworth) ............................................................................................
Michael P. barnes. Runes. A handbook. (Tom birkett) ....................................................................
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CONTENTS
ECHOES OF THE BOOK OF JOSEPH AND ASENETH, PARTICULARLY IN YNG­VARS SAGA VÍÐFÑRLA. Richard Cole .....................................................................

5

WHY WAS LEIFR EIRÍKSSON CALLED ‘LUCKY’? Gunnar Karlsson ....................

35

A STEMMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE PROSE EDDA. Haukur Þorgeirsson ...........

49

NJÁLL’S COMFORTING WORDS. BRENNU-NJÁLS SAGA, CHAPTER 129.
Thomas D. Hill ....................................................................................................

71

USELESS KNOWLEDGE? THE PARADOX OF ALVÍSSMÁL. John McKinnell .......

79

THE TREATMENT OF IRISH ANCESTRY IN LAXDŒLA SAGA AND NJÁLS
SAGA. William Norman ......................................................................................

97ÖLVIR IN ICELAND AND IN THE AUSTRFARARVÍSUR. Sigurður R. Helgason ....... 109
STEALING HIS THUNDER. AN INVESTIGATION OF OLD NORSE IMAGES
OF ÞÓRR. Declan Taggart ..................................................................................... 123

John Frankis. From Old English to Old Norse. A study of Old English texts translated
into Old Norse with an edition of the English and Norse versions of Ælfric’s De
falsis diis. (John Hines) .............................................................................................. 147
Steven P. Ashby. A Viking way of life. Combs and communities in early medieval Brit­ain. (Roderick Dale) .................................................................................................. 148
Shane McLeod. The beginning of Scandinavian settlement in England. The ­Viking‘Great Army’ and early settlers, c.865–900. (Pragya Vohra) ..................................... 151
Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald. The Vikings and their age. (Dale
Kedwards) .................................................................................................................. 153
Jackson Crawford (trans.). The Poetic Edda. Stories of the Norse gods and heroes. (PeteSandberg) .................................................................................................................. 155
Erin Michelle Goeres. The poetics of commemoration. Skaldic verse and social mem­
ory, c.890–1070. (Russell Poole) .............................................................................. 157
Laurence de Looze, Jón Karl Helgason, Russell Poole and Torfi H. Tulinius (eds). Egil,
the Viking poet. New approaches to Egil’s saga. (Tom Birkett) .............................. 160
Elín Bára Magnús­dóttir. Eyrbyggja saga. Efni og höfundareinkenni. (Yoav Tirosh) ...... 163
William Ian Miller. ‘Why is your axe bloody?’ A reading of Njáls saga. (Alison Finlay) ... 167
Judy Quinn and M. Cipolla (eds). Studies in the transmission and reception of Old Norse
literature. The Hyperborean muse in European culture. (Jessica Hancock) ............ 170
Gulbrand Alhaug, Tove Bull and Aud-Kirsti Pedersen (eds.) Endre-boka. Postfestumskrift
til Endre Mørk. (Michael P. Barnes) ......................................................................... 173
Ásdís Egilsdóttir. Fræðinæmi. Greinar gefnar út í tilefni 70 ára afmælis Ásdísar Egils­
dóttur. (Natalie M. Van Deusen) ................................................................................ 176
Jónas Kristjánsson. Sagnalíf. Sextán greinar um fornar bókmenntir. Ed. Þórður IngiGuðjónsson. (Rory McTurk) ...................................................................................... 178
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VILMUNDAR SAGA VIÐUTAN
THE SAGA OF VILMUNDUR THE OUTSIDER
EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY

JONATHAN Y. H. HUI

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and
the

The author, Dr Árni Björnsson, has studied the cultural history of
Iceland as well as that of the western world more generally. During theyears 1961 to 1965 he was guest lecturer in Icelandic language andliterature at the University in Greifswald and at the Free University,
Berlin. From 1965 to 1968 he worked at the Manuscript Institute of
Iceland and from 1969 to 1994 he was head of the Folklore Departmentof the National Museum of Iceland. He has published several books
on aspects of Icelandic culture and its correspondences with international traditions.

WAGNER

This book is a translation of a revised version, edited by Anthony
Faulkes, of Árni Björnsson’s Wagner og Völsungar, published in
Icelandic in 2000. In it the sources Wagner used in compiling the librettiof his great work, Der Ring des Nibelungen, are detailed scene byscene through all four operas of the cycle. Many will be surprised tolearn that no more than 5% of his material is derived solely frommedieval German books such as Das Nibelungenlied, while at least
80% is from Old Icelandic writings: the Prose Edda, Eddic poems,
and various sagas. The concept of Götterdämmerung, for example, inwhich the world is consumed by fire, as well as the flickering flame
surrounding Brünnhilde’s mountain fastness, were known to Wagner
from Icelandic sources alone, since they do not appear in any German
text, and may well have been inspired originally by the volcanic
eruptions that occur so frequently in Iceland. About 15% of Wagner’s
literary motifs in the Ring are common to both German and Icelandic
texts.
The book also contains a brief account of Wagner’s life, and tells
how he came to know Icelandic literature through the spread ofknowledge of Old Icelandic texts in the German-speaking world during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the reasons why
Germanic mythology was almost exclusively preserved in Iceland in
the Middle Ages, but became so popular in Germany in the nineteenth
century and later. The long process of composition of words and music
for the Ring cycle is related to details of Wagner’s life, and mention ismade of the reception of Wagner’s works in modern Iceland, when his
debt to Icelandic literature was finally repaid.

WAGNERand theVOLSUNGSICELANDIC SOURCES OF
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN

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SAGA-BOOK OF THE VIKING SOCIETY
Vol. XXIII 1990–1993
CONTENTSARTICLES AND NOTESPAGETHE CONTEXT OF VO≈LUNDARKVI‹A. John McKinnell ................
1
THE SUPERNATURAL IN N JÁLS SAGA: A NARRATOLOGICALAPPROACH. Rory McTurk ........................................................... 28
THE SILK-CLAD VARANGIAN: ﬁORLEIFUR REPP AND FÆREYINGASAGA. Andrew Wawn ................................................................. 46
MIKIL SKYNSEMI ER AT RIFJA VANDLIGA ﬁAT UPP : A RESPONSE TO
KLAUS VON SEE. Margaret Clunies Ross .................................. 73
THE BLOOD-EAGLE ONCE MORE: TWO NOTES. A. BLÓ‹ÖRN—AN
OBSERVATION ON THE ORNITHOLOGICAL ASPECT. Bjarni Einarsson 80
B. ORNITHOLOGY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF SKALDIC VERSE.
Roberta Frank .............................................................................. 81
SOME CONTEXTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD NORSE ORDERING LISTS. Elizabeth Jackson ...................................................... 111
HÁVÁMAL AND SOURCES OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA. Carolyne
Larrington .................................................................................... 141
NÍ‹, ADULTERY AND FEUD IN BJARNAR SAGA HÍTDŒLAKAPPA.
Alison Finlay ............................................................................... 158
EDITORS’ NOTE ............................................................................... 179
THE VIKING SOCIETY: A CENTENARY HISTORY. J. A. B. Townsend 180
THE SPIRIT OF 1892: SAGAS, SAGA-STEADS AND VICTORIAN
PHILOLOGY. Andrew Wawn ....................................................... 213
A RAMBLE IN ICELAND. Dr. Phené ............................................... 253
THE NORSE LAY OF WAYLAND (“VØLUNDARKVI‹A”), AND ITSRELATION TO ENGLISH TRADITION. Sophus Bugge .................. 275“EDDA”. Eirikr Magnusson ............................................................ 317
NINE MEN’S MORRIS: AN OLD VIKING GAME. A. R. Goddard .... 339
THE VIKINGS IN LAKELAND: THEIR PLACE-NAMES, REMAINS, HISTORY. W. G. Collingwood .......................................................... 348
REPORTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT THE MEETINGS OF THE CLUB[1895–1899] .................................................................................... 363
RONALD GEORGE FINCH. D. S. ..................................................... 375
JEAN ISOBEL YOUNG. P. A. M. C. ................................................ 376
GU‹BRANDUR VIGFÚSSON IN OXFORD. D. A. H. Evans ............. 378
INTERTEXTUALITY IN BJARNAR SAGA HÍTDŒLAKAPPA. Fredrik
J. Heinemann ............................................................................... 419

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PILGRIMAGE AND PRESTIGE IN THE ICELANDIC SAGAS. Joyce Hill 433
THE RÍMUR-POET AND HIS AUDIENCE. Hans Kuhn ...................... 454
ﬁÓRR’S RIVER CROSSING. Lotte Motz ........................................... 469
ARNOLD RODGERS TAYLOR. C. E. F. ........................................... 489
UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE: A RESPONSE TO LOTTE MOTZ’S‘ﬁÓRR’S RIVER CROSSING’. Margaret Clunies Ross .................. 491
Ó‹INN, D. A. H. EVANS AND HEIMUR HÁVAMÁLA. Hermann Pálsson 496

REVIEWSISLANDS TIDIGA BOSÄTTNING. STUDIER MED UTGÅNGSPUNKT IMEROVINGERTIDA-VIKINGATIDA GÅRDSLÄMNINGAR I HERJÓLFSDALUR, VESTMANNAEYJAR, ISLAND. By Margrét HermannsAu›ardóttir. (Gu›rún Sveinbjarnardóttir) .................................. 84
GO‹OR‹ OG GO‹OR‹SMENN. By Lú›vík Ingvarsson. (John Kennedy) 87
VAFﬁRÚ‹NISMÁL. Edited by Tim William Machan. (David Parsons) 90
ANDREAS HEUSLER AN WILHELM RANISCH. BRIEFE AUS DEN JAHREN
1890–1940. Edited by Klaus Düwel and Heinrich Beck, with contributions by Oskar Bandle and Hans Neumann. (Beatrice La Farge) 91
MO≈TTULS SAGA. Edited by Marianne Kalinke. With an edition of
L E LAI DU C ORT MANTEL by Philip E. Bennett. (Jane Dale) 93ISLÄNDERSAGAS UND IHRE ÜBERSETZUNGEN. EIN BEITRAG ZU DEN
THEMEN TRANSLATION UND REZEPTION VON SAGALITERATUR IM
DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN RAUM VON DEN ANFÄNGEN IM 19. JAHRHUNDERT BIS ZUR GEGENWART. By Maria Winkler. (Keneva Kunz) 94
THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS. THE NORSE EPIC OF SIGURD THE
DRAGON SLAYER. Translated by Jesse L. Byock. (R. G. Finch) 95
VIKINGS IN RUSSIA. YNGVAR’S SAGA AND EYMUND’S SAGA. Translated and introduced by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards.
(Robert Cook) .............................................................................. 99
C ONCISE I CELANDIC – E NGLISH DICTIONARY . ÍSLENSK – ENSK
OR‹ABÓK. By Sverrir Hólmarsson, Christopher Sanders andJohn Tucker. (D. A. H. Evans) .................................................. 105
SVENSKT RUNORDSREGISTER. By Lena Peterson. (Jane Dale) .... 107
THE BIRSAY BAY PROJECT, VOLUME 1. COASTAL SITES BESIDETHE BROUGH ROAD, BIRSAY, ORKNEY. EXCAVATIONS 1976–
1982. By Christopher D. Morris, with contributions by Colleen
E. Batey, Norman Emery, D. James Rackham and others. (Gu›rún
Sveinbjarnardóttir) ...................................................................... 108
THE BATTLE OF MALDON AD 991. Edited by Donald Scragg. (Rory
McTurk) ....................................................................................... 380
THE VIKINGS. By Else Roesdahl. (K. L. Maund) ........................ 385
TOWNS IN THE VIKING AGE. By Helen Clarke and Björn Ambrosiani.
(Neil S. Price) ............................................................................. 387

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SOCIAL APPROACHES TO VIKING STUDIES. Edited by Ross Samson.
(Colleen Batey) ........................................................................... 390
NÄR SVERIGE BLEV SVERIGE. By Peter Sawyer. (John Hines) .. 391
IL TEMA DEL VIAGGIO NELLE ISCRIZIONI RUNICHE. By Carla Cucina.
(Christopher Jackson) ................................................................. 394
ALTNORDISCHE KOSMOGRAPHIE. STUDIEN UND QUELLEN ZUWELTBILD UND WELTBESCHREIBUNG IN NORWEGEN UND ISLAND VOM 12. BIS ZUM 14. JAHRHUNDERT. By Rudolf Simek.
(Anthony Faulkes).. .................................................................... 396
HELLAS OG NORGE. KONTAKT, KOMPARASJON, KONTRAST. EN
ARTIKKELSAMLING. Edited by Øivind Andersen and Tomas
Hägg. (Frederic Amory) ............................................................. 399
HEIMUR HÁVAMÁLA. By Hermann Pálsson. (D. A. H. Evans).... 414
KVINNOR OCH FAMILJ I DET FORN- OCH MEDELTIDA SKANDINAVIEN.
By Birgit Sawyer. (Bridget Morris) .......................................... 499
CORPUS OF ANGLO-SAXON STONE SCULPTURE. III. YORK AND
EASTERN YORKSHIRE. By James Lang, with contributions byJohn Higgitt, Raymond I. Page and John R. Senior. (John
Hines) ........................................................................................... 499
SNORRI STURLUSON. EDDA. HÁTTATAL. Edited by Anthony Faulkes.
(Gu›rún Nordal) .......................................................................... 504
VIKING POEMS ON WAR AND PEACE. A STUDY IN SKALDIC NARRATIVE. By R. G. Poole. (Diana Whaley) ..................................... 506
YNGLINGATAL OG YNGLINGESAGA. EN STUDIE I HISTORISKE KILDER.
By Claus Krag. (Diana Whaley) ................................................ 511
S TUDIES IN R AGNARS SAGA LO‹BRÓKAR AND ITS MAJOR
SCANDINAVIAN ANALOGUES. By Rory McTurk. (Chris Wickham) 515
BACKGROUND TO DYLAN THOMAS AND OTHER EXPLORATIONS.
By Gwyn Jones. (Desmond Slay) .............................................. 517
THE ANGLO MAN: ﬁORLEIFUR REPP, PHILOLOGY AND NINETEENTHCENTURY BRITAIN. By Andrew Wawn. (Gary L. Aho) ........... 518
ÚR DÖLUM TIL DALA: GU‹BRANDUR VIGFÚSSON CENTENARY
ESSAYS. Edited by Rory McTurk and Andrew Wawn. (Robert
Kellogg) ....................................................................................... 523
PEOPLE AND PLACES IN NORTHERN EUROPE 500–1600. ESSAYS INHONOUR OF PETER HAYES SAWYER. Edited by Ian Wood andNiels Lund. (R. I. Page) ............................................................. 529
VIKING ALE: STUDIES ON FOLKLORE CONTACTS BETWEEN THE
NORTHERN AND THE WESTERN WORLDS. By Bo Almqvist. (Stephen
N. Tranter) ................................................................................... 535
STUDIENBIBLIOGRAPHIE ZUR ÄLTEREN SKANDINAVISTIK. By Stefan
Gippert, Britta Laursen, Hartmut Röhn. (J. A. B. Townsend)... 537