Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-376) and indexes.
Contents:
Index. List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Peter Erasmus Müllerʼs Sagabibliothek (1817-20) -- "Utvivlsomt grunder sig paa en gammel Vise" : Svend Grundtvig -- "Alle forteljingsdragi i visa kunde høva i soga" : Knut Liestøl and Einar Ólafur Sveinsson -- "Dansinn geymir söguefnið i upphaflegri mynd" : Davið Erlingsson -- "This Convoluted Issue" : Judith Jesch -- "Isen er usikker" : Erik Sønderholm -- Overview of Discussions to Date -- Identifying Prose from Poetry -- The Faroese Ballad -- Cursed by a Stepmother and Strung-Up by a Trollwoman : The Other Sources -- A Compilation of Obscure Origin -- "Ykkar hef ég séð mestan mun" : Textual and Contextual Variation -- Previous Stemmatic Work -- Sleeping with the Enemy : AM 123 8vo -- Scribal Quirks : AM 591 g 4to -- The Bishop and His Friends : AM 592 a 4to, AM 203 fol., AM 582 4to and AM 163 fol. -- Local Groups : ÍB 233 4to, BL Add. 4859 et al. -- Borderline Cases : Resenʼs Lost Manuscript, NKS 1144 fol., Lbs 1498 4to et al. -- "Eigi ertu sem aðrir menn" : Characters as Intertextual Conduits -- Illugi Griðarfóstri, Tagldarbani, kerlingarfífl and eldhúsgoði -- References to Illugi in Allra kappa kvæði and "Ég er að tálga horn í högld ..." -- *Skjaldar saga og Hermanns and the Sworn-Brothers' Genealogies -- Male Networks and Female Networks -- "Hlæjandi með miklum ógangi" : Finding the Funny Flagð -- A Night-Rider on the Mountain Pasture : The Introduction to the Saga -- Loathly Ladies I : Encountering the Grotesque Trollwoman -- Saying What You See : The Hero Takes a Truth Test -- Loathly Ladies II : Using Sex to Establish Sovereignty and Impose Submission -- Slow Reversions : The Breaking of the Curse -- Getting a Foster-Mother : Winding up the Saga -- Error, Gender and Humour -- Fearless Syntheses : Scholarly Reception and the Development of a Genre -- The Late Seventeenth Century and the Editio Princeps of Illuga saga -- The Eighteenth Century and the Impact of Guðmundur Ólafssonʼs Edition -- The Nineteenth Century and the Genesis of Carl Christian Rafnʼs Fornaldarsögur Edition -- Reiterations of Rafn into the Twentieth Century -- Poetic Cliffhangers in the Lives of Cave-Dwellers : The Rímur of Illugi Griðarfóstri -- The Different Sets of Rímur -- Those Attributed to Árni Jónsson, prestur í Húsavík (d. 1652) -- Those Composed by Einar Steingrímsson (1710-?) for Guðmundur Hallsson -- Those Composed by Davið Jónsson (1768-1839) -- Those Composed by Eiríkur Pálsson (1825-1900) -- Those Composed by Jon Jón Jónatansson (1828-1912) -- Those Composed by Jón Ólafsson (1889-1967) -- Fitts and Starts -- Summarising and Moving Forward -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Excerpt from Peter Friderich Suhmʼs Critisk Historie af Danmark, udi den hedenske Tid fra Odin til Gorm den Gamle (1774-81) -- Excerpt from Peter Erasmus Müllerʼs Sagabibliothek (1817-20) -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index.
Series:
The Viking collection. Studies in Northern civilization, 0108-8408 ; volume 25
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