Víga-Glúms SagaGabriel Turville-Petre One of the finest examples of Icelandic narrative prose, this saga is a biography with a single hero Glumr, whose life it follows from beginning to end. It is notable for its economical and highly-polished style. This edition, designed for the student of literature and cultural history as well as linguistics, contains the Old Norse text with extensive notes and a glossary to facilitate the understanding of its idioms. An outstanding feature of the saga is the belief in personal destiny which is here combined with the belief in magical power with which certain objects may be endowed. Glumr's welfare depends directly on his cloak, sword and spear, which may be said to carry the good fortunes of his family. From the day when he receives them from his grandfather Vigfuss his security and supremacy are assured; but Vigfuss seems already to have known that his grandson will one day part with them, and that then his good fortune will leave him. The belief in predetermined catastrophe is evident in many passages and appears to dominate the saga throughout. The evidence for family cults and superstitions has been treated in some detail, and an attempt has been made to trace those echoes in |
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MAP OF EYJAFJQRÐR Frontispiece | ix |
VÍGAGLÚMS SAGA I | 52 |
TEXTUAL NOTES | 88 |
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áðr ætla alþingis Ástríðr átti bað Bárðr Besk bjó brott Copenhagen eigi Einarr eitt engi eptir Eyjafjarðará Eyjólfr ferr Finnur Jónsson Freyr fylgja fyrir ganga gekk Glúmi Glúmr Glúmr segir Glúms goði Guðmundr halda Halli hamingja hefir heim hendi hét hlut honum Hrísey hvat Iceland illa impers Ingjaldr Ingólfr Kálfr Kålund kemr Kolr komit kvað kvazk Landnámabók láta leggja leið lét lézk Lndn maðr mál málit mann manna Már með menn mikill mikit mínum mót Narfi nokkut oneself prep pron ráð Reykjavík ríða Saga segja sér Sigmundr sína sinn sínum sjá Skúta skyldi spurði Steinólfr sthg svá svarar tók útan væri varð váru vér verðr við við e-n Vigfúss vildi vilja þá þann þar þat Þáttr þeir þeira þér þik þó Þórarinn Þorkell Þorvaldr þótti þú Þverá því þykkir þykkja