Article: Die Grettis Saga: Die Saga von Grettir dem Starken.(Review)

Article: The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Frustrated Connection between ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Connection between `Beowulf' and `Grettis saga' (Toronto: University of Toronto ... for a relationship between Beowulf and Grettis saga -- texts which Fjalldal describes as ... celebrated similarities between Beowulf and Grettis saga are in fact not as striking as has been ...

Article: Islandische Marchensagas.(Review)
Scandinavian Studies;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... relatively unknown sagas, while Die Grettis Saga represents one of the longest ... second volume under review, Die Grettis Saga, differs from the six Marchensagas ... translated excerpts in 1816, Grettis saga Asmundarson has been partially ...

Article: Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the ...
Medium Aevum;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Alexander legend in Anglo-Saxon England, and the Old Norse Grettis saga. The book concludes with texts and English translations ... comparison nor the later chapters on the Liber monstrorum and Grettis saga can throw much new light on Beowulf Orchard's failure to ...

Article: Heather O'Donoghue, Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Eyrbyggja saga (chapter 2), Gisla saga (chapter 3), and Grettis saga (chapter 4). As O'Donoghue explains in her introduction ... that the heroes in the two sagas of outlaws (Gisli saga and Grettis saga) frequently recite poetry to themselves and, by extension ...

Article: "Sva lykr her hverju hestadingi": sports and games in Icelandic ...
Scandinavian Studies;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... episode from Egils saga is a confrontation between Grettirr and his kinsmen and Kormakr and his kinsmen from chapter 29 of Grettis saga Asmundarson. The conflict takes place at a horsefight, a competition in which two men drive their horses to attack each ...

Article: Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Sagaubersetzungen ...
Scandinavian Studies;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... history of the saga translations as transparent as possible. As an example, one can easily trace the German reception of Grettis saga Asmundarsonar through thirty-three entries ranging from 1816 to 1987 and including selections of various lengths, two ...

Encyclopedia entry: saga
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      559 words ... ... deals with the theme of a tragic love triangle and the fortunes of one of Iceland's most powerful families at that time. Grettis saga tells, with remarkable psychological depth and sublety, the story of a famous Icelandic outlaw; Grettir's fights with ...