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The Prose Summary as Antiquarian Tool and Literary Springboard: An Edition and Translation of Ormars þáttur Framarsonar.

December 2022

Authors:

Katarzyna Anna Kapitan

University of Oxford

Philip Lavender

University of Gothenburg

This study examines the Icelandic part of the adaptation and transmission history of works dealing with Ormar Framarsson, mainly Ormars þáttur Framarssonar and a prose summary of Ormar's rímur, but also the Rímur of Ormari Framarssyni. The story about Ormar is known from an Icelandic poem dating to the 15th century, Ormars rímur, which is possibly based on an older lost saga, but also from Scandinavian ballads: The Danish Orm Ungersvend og Bermer-Rise, the Swedish Orm Ungersven and the Norwegian Ormaalen unge. While the relationship between the Scandinavian ballads and the Icelandic poem has previously been thoroughly examined, the relationships between them and the early modern works remain unknown to research. Possibly due to a belief in the relationship to Hervarar saga, the story of Ormar attracted attention from early modern Scandinavian antiquarians and the prose adaptations we know today were probably produced to make the story more easily accessible to said antiquarians. The present study presents first ever study of the transmission and adaptation history of Ormars þáttur, followed by its text-critical edition and an English translation as well as editions of supplementary variant versions.

Relationships between various versions of the tale of Ormar in prose and verse.

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Relationships between the texts of Ormars þáttur.

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Locations associated with some of the manuscripts and/or their scribes; marker colours correspond to text-groups: blue -A, yellow -B1, green -B2 and red for ÍB 227 4to, which sometimes agrees with group A and at other times with group B.

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Opuscula XX -- version 6

The prose summary as antiquarian tool

and literary springboard. An edition and

translation of Ormars þáttur

Framarssonar

Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

n the spring           

          

           

           

              

          

           

          

          

     Ormars rímur     

              

             

           

            

           

                  

                 

 

               

 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

           

   Ormars rímur         

          

         

     Ormars rímur         

          

           

           

          

 Ormars þáur Framarssonar  Ormars þáur   

        þáur  

               

            

             

                

               

            

               

            

            

              

            

              

              

       

          Et hundrede

udvaalde Danske Viser           

          

                rímur

 rímur           

            

               Hrómundar saga

Greipssonar              

  Úlfhams saga  Ormars þáur      

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

             

   Ormars þáur        

           

            

             

              

     Ormars rímur    

 ríma  rímur            

             

 Orm Ungersvend og Bermer-Rise   i   

Orm Ungersven   iii     Ormaalen

unge    Ormars rímur       

            

           

        Ormars saga  

          rímur     

          

             

            

   iii        

               

     Hálfs sagaHervarar saga      

             

        Ormars þáur 

            

             þáur

        þáur     

          þáur  

                 

   

          rímur    

               

             

                

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

          

           

       þáur    

            

        

  

               

              

          

 Ormars þáur        

          

       Ormars saga  Úlfhams saga 

            Ormars

þáur      rímur        

             

              þáur

               

            

             

           

           

    þæir          

              

           

               

                

             

             

               

                  

             

       

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

 Ormars þáur           

              

          

           

           

           Ormars þáur

              

                 

             

           

      Ormars þáur    

  Ormars rímur      

           

 fornaldarsögur     Hervarar saga    

Ormars saga        

             

            

          

   Heiðreks saga   Hervarar saga  Ormars saga  

              

            

           

          

        

          Ormars rímur 

   Hervarar saga         

         

    Hervarar saga       Ormars rímur

         

            Arngríms synir 

         

       Ormars rímur   

      Ormars saga  Arngríms synir   

     Hervarar saga    

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

         Ormars saga

      Hervarar saga   fornaldarsögur

 Sturlaugs saga starfsama      

       rímur     

            

           

           

           

           

           

              

           

             

              

           Hervarar saga

    

      Hervararsaga      

      Ormars saga    Hervarar saga

            Ormars

saga        Hervarar saga   

            

        Ormars saga  

        Hervarar saga     

Ormars rímur  Ormars þáur       Ormars saga

          Hervarar saga 

           

      iv    

  Hervarar saga      

            

                

                

          

            Hervarar

saga   

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

             

           

  

   Hervarar saga         

            

              

             

             

            Hervarar saga

           

             

             

           

               

  

          

             

           

             

             

               

            

               

            

               

            

           

            

         

               

               

             

       

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

             

            Ormars

rímur  Ormars þáur        

         Ormars þáur

             

Hervarar saga               þáur

             

           

            

           

            

            

            

            

        Hervarar saga  

              

            

            

             

            

           

              

            

            

            

             

           

              

               

Hervarar saga              

                

            

              Widsith

              

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

Ormars rímur  Ormars þáur      

          rímur  þáur  

              

           

     Hervarar saga       

             

        Hervarar saga  

     Ormars rímurOrmars þáur  Hervarar saga

         

         Ormars

rímur         Hervarar saga 

         

   Ormars rímur       

Hervarar saga         

           

    Hervarar saga        

          Hervarar saga 

            

           

               

             

Hervarar saga            Ormars

rímur            

       Ormars þáur   

              

            

 Ormars rímur         

      Ormars þáur    

    Ormars rímur         

         

           

           

              

             

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

             

    rímur          

   rímur            

             

    rímurOrmars þáur      rímur   

               

      rímur       

             

       Ormars þáur   

          Ormars rímur i 

             

      

          

         rímur     

              

         Ormars þáur  

           rímur 

                

       i       

         rímur    

            

        Ormars þáur   

     rímur          

 

             

            Ormars þáur   

           Ormars þáur     

     rímur         

        i        

       Ormars þáur

         rímur      

              

                Ormars

rímur                

        

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

             rímur

            

          rímur       

         Ormars þáur   

           

  þáur          

             

         þáur  

       

             

             

    þáur          

               

                

              

     rímur          

              

          

          

            

           

          Ormars rímur  

           

           

            

          mansöngvar   

           

          

             

              

            

  Ormars þáur          

                

   

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

            

          Vermundar þáur og

Upsa            

            

            

             

             

             

            

             

Ormars þáur          

              

          Ormars þáur  

          

           

        rímur   

             

             

   i       

         rímur     

           

 Ormars þáur            

    rímur          

              

          



    Long Lives of Short Sagas    

            

            

   Ormars þáur              

 rímur-              

              

   

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

           

            

          

           

    Ormars þáur          

              

             

            

            

           

       

        

          

           

   

           

             

           

             

           Ormars

þáur            

           

         

             

            

         Gaueks saga

Hrólfs saga Gauekssonar  Bósa saga ok Herrauðs     

            

             

          fornaldarsögur 

              

 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

        Ásmundar saga víkings

hins írska      

             

         rímur  

             

            Rímur

af Ormari Framarssyni          

         

i     rímur          

   þáur           

          rímur    

 þáur            

           ii 

             

    þáur        

          

           

           

        

    Ormars þáur  

            

   

Ásmundar saga víkings hins írska        

              

           

        

          rímur  

               

              

          rímur       

     Handrit

            

            

              

        

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

*Lost Ormars saga

Ormars rímur

XV cent.

Ormars þáttur

AM 119 b 8vo etc., XVII–XIX cent.

Summary of Ormars rímur

AM 601 a 4to, XVII cent.

Summary of Ormars rímur with added stanzas

Lbs 3128 4to, XIX cent.

Rímur af Ormari

XIX cent.

Figure 1:            





   Ormars þáur      

           

             

          

           

             

  ii       Gnýs ævintýr 

     Eiríks saga víðfǫrla   

Ormars þáur Framarssonar         

           

            

            

             

               

            

  Gnýs ævintýr     Eiríks saga víðfǫrla      Ormars

þáur Framarssonar           

               

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

  

 󰒑󰒑󰒏  󰒎  󰒑󰒌󰒐󰒐󰒑󰒍󰒐󰒐

 󰒒󰒔󰒒󰒑 󰒎    󰒑󰒍󰒕󰒐

 󰒑󰒌󰒐    󰒑󰒍󰒍󰒒󰒑󰒎󰒐󰒐

 󰒔󰒍󰒏 i–vii 󰒎  󰒑󰒍󰒍󰒎󰒑󰒎󰒓󰒒 󰒑󰒎󰒐󰒓

  󰒒󰒔󰒏󰒍󰒒  󰒑󰒎󰒐󰒐󰒑󰒎󰒕󰒐

 󰒓󰒕󰒌󰒕 󰒔   󰒑󰒎󰒐󰒒󰒑󰒎󰒐󰒔

 󰒑󰒕󰒍󰒒 󰒔   󰒑󰒎󰒑󰒕󰒑󰒎󰒒󰒍 󰒑󰒎󰒑󰒎

 󰒑󰒓󰒐󰒔 󰒎   󰒑󰒎󰒑󰒏󰒑󰒎󰒒󰒕 󰒑󰒎󰒒󰒕

 󰒑󰒏󰒍󰒍 󰒎   󰒑󰒎󰒒󰒐

 󰒒󰒍󰒍 󰒔   󰒑󰒎󰒓󰒓󰒑󰒎󰒓󰒔 󰒑󰒎󰒓󰒓

 󰒔󰒔󰒎󰒕 󰒔   󰒑󰒎󰒏󰒕󰒑󰒎󰒏󰒌

Table 1:   Ormars þáur

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

          

Ormars þáur            

        Eiríks saga víðfǫrla       

            

              

                

           

          

           

              

           

           

          

          

 

  

            

               

  Handrit       

           

      Saganaf Marselius og Rósamundu 

   Eiríks sagavíðfǫrla     Hálfssaga okHálfsrekka

          Hemings þáur Áslákssonar

     Ormars þáur     

             

             

                

               

    

       Handrit      

    Skrá          

       iii 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

    iii        

              

         

  

            

Ormars þáur              

              

  Handrit         

             

       Laxdœla  Eyrbyggja   

    Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks  Ajax saga ækna  

     Ormars þáur      

            

         ii   

              

              

              

          

            

  

            

                 

    Handrit     

              

   i–vii          

            

           

  Skrá           ii



  Skrá            

  ii 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

     Ormars þáur      iii

     Egils saga einhenda    

               

    Egils saga    Ormars þáur     

            

         iii     

             

        

  

            

            

        Laxdœla  Vatnsdœla

     Ferams saga og Platós   fornaldarsögur/

þæirFriðþjófs saga  Ormars þáur      

             

               i

 ii           

         

  

           

            

             

          

  Skrá           

  ii 

                  

           

             

                 

      

  Skrá         

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

              

             

       Handrit  

           

            

        Hrólfs saga Gauekssonar 

Ormars þáur          Heiðarvíga saga

    rímurRímur af Trójumönnum

  

           

              

           

        i  

      hreppsóri  

          

         rímur   

 v        rímur      

      Gríms saga Jarlssonar    

              

    Handrit       

          

    Eiríks saga víðfǫrla    Hálfs saga ok Hálfs-

rekka    Illuga saga Gríðarfósa   

    Hrómundar saga Greipssonar   

   Ormars þáur      



       i 

  Skrá               

    i 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

  

           

           

  Handrit         

            

Göngu-Hrólfs sagaEiríks saga víðfǫrla    Vermundar þáur og

UpsaOrmars þáur   Þorsteins þáur stangarhöggs  Gríms saga

Skeljungsbana         

           

Ormars þáur             

         

            

          ii  iii 

             

          

              Manntal

              

           

              

    Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og ævintýri   

     iii 

  

            

              

           

ii              

           

         Skrá

  Skrá           ii



Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

             

    Ambrósíus saga og Rósamundu  

         Hrings saga og Skjaldar  

        rímur 

      Ormars þáur  

  

            

                

           

          

 ii           

                 

        

            

          ii

   Handrit        

           Nida saga

 Konráðs saga keisarasonar   fornaldarþæir   Tóka þáur 

Ormars þáur   Ormars þáur      

  

  

           

               

          

        

           

              

     ii     

  Skrá             

 ii 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

           

 Handrit          

          Sigurðar saga

fóts  Ambrósíus saga og Rósamundu   rímur  

 Úlfhams saga Ormars þáur    Agnars saga Hróarssonar

           rímur 

             



 

   Ormars þáur          

           

           

           

           

             

            

        

               

            

            

               

               

           

  

       om. 

         

      Úlfhams saga     

           

rímur               

              

        

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

     om. 

                  

            

     rímur        

            

            

            

                

               

              

       Gnýs ævintýr  Eiríks saga víðfǫrla 

        

    Gnýs ævintýr         

                 

Ormars þáur           

               

             

               

            

              

              

   

            

   om.       

lacuna  om.  

               

               

              

     

           

              

            

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

           

       

             

            

     

             

            

                 

               

              

               

               

             

            

             

            

               

              

                 

             

                

           

             

     

            

            

         

           

           

             

         

          

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

            

              

 

              

            

   lacuna 

             

             

            

           

            

       

       

               

             

           

                 

  

              

                 

                

           

        

              

                

     

              

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

            

           om.  

  

             

          

       þáur     

          om. 

    om.     om. 

       om. 

           

    

        

            

             

            

              

           

             

            

            

  Vermundar þáur og Upsa  Eiríks saga víðfǫrla  

          Vermundar þáur og

Upsa              

            Eiríks saga víðfǫrla

                

             

              

         Ormars þáur     

           

             

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

             

    

              

              

           

               

  

       om.  

          

     om.  

            

           

  

                

     

                

       om.   om. 

lacuna 

            

         

          om 

           

   om 

              

 

             

               

            

             Ormars

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

Group A

Sub-group B1 Sub-group B2

119 B

2421 1977 B1 1572 277

160 b 1304

3565 24972 479 4485

Figure 2:      Ormars þáur

þáur             

           

           

          

          

             

           

          

            

            

           

           

             

           

             

            

           

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

Manuscripts

Skuggabjörg (ÍB 277 4to)

Stóra-Vatnshorn (JS 160 fol.)

Svarfhóll (Lbs 3565 4to)

Hvítidalur (Lbs 4485 4to)

Stokkahlaðir (Lbs 1572 4to)

Fnjóskadalur (Lbs 1304 8vo)

Svefneyjar (Lbs 2421 8vo)

Figure 3:          

               

                

            

        Ormars þáur    

            

         

         

            

   

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

 

           

             

              

              

            

  

              

              

           

              

             

           

            

            

              

           

          Ormars þáur  

           

           

              

          

             

         

       Handrit  Sprogsamlin-

ger             

             

        

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender



   Úlfhams saga    

   

        

      Scripta Islandica  

   Arfur aldanna i: Handan Hindaralls 

    Svenska fornsånger, en samling af kämpavisor, folk-visor,

lekar och dansar, samt barn- och vall-sånger   

   Munnmælasögur 17. aldar      

    Rímur rir 1600     

  

    Handritasafn Landsbókasafns. ii Aukabindi 

   Íslensk–dönsk orðabók 

   Mof-Index of Early Icelandic Literature  

  

           

Catalogue of Addions to the Manuscripts in the Brish Museum in the Years 1854–1875.



      An Icelandic–English Diconary



         

        

  Mirrors of Virtue: Manuscript and Print in Late Pre-Modern Iceland.

Opuscula 15     

           

 Nordæla: Afmæliskveðja Til Professors, Dr. Phil. & Li. & Jur. Sigurðar

Nordals Ambassadors Íslands í Kaupmannahöfn Sjötugs 14. September 1956 

 

    Ásmundar saga víkings hins írska 

    Hemings þár Áslákssonar  

   

   Rímnatal   

   Katalog öfver Kongl. bibliotekets fornisländska och fornnorska

handskrier 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

    The Calculus of Variants, an Essay on Textual Cricism



       Handritasafn Lands-

bókasafns. iv Aukabindi 

    Danmarks gamle Folkeviser   

    Danmarks gamle Folkeviser   

    Danmarks gamle Folkeviser   

       Jón Ólafsson úr Grunna-

vík. Safn l íslenskrar bókmenntasögu    

         

        Scandinavian Studies

 

    Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar  

   

         

          

     

          

 

   Eiríks saga viðfǫrla     



         The Types of the

Medieval Scandinavian Ballad: A Descripve Catalogue 

        Íslenzkar

þjóðsögur og ævintýri   

   Dalamenn: æviskrár 1703–1961   

    Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs 

   Catalogue of the Icelandic Manuscripts in the Brish Library 

        

        

       

   Gripla  

          

        

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

      Extended Papers of the Internaonal

Symposium on Digital Humanies  

          Hró-

mundar saga Greipssonar      

           

        Saga-Book  

           

         

Gripla  

   Katalog over den Arnamagnæanske Håndskrisamling

  

    Arne Magnussons private brevveksling 

   Norske Folkeviser 

      Illuga saga Gríðarfósa 

     Fornaldarsaga   

  

   Skjaldar þár Danakonungs   

Opuscula  

       Vermundar þáur og Upsa Opus-

cula  

   Long Lives of Short Sagas: The Irrepressibili of Narrave and

the Case of    

   Norske ollvisor og norrøne sogor 

    The Recepon of     om the Middle

Ages to the Seventeenth Century     

          

Opuscula  

         

          Scandinavian

Studies   

          

Ambrósíus saga og Rósamunda      Opuscula  

   Heroic Sagas and Ballads 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

    Skrá um handritasöfn landsbókasafnsins  



    Íslenzkar æviskrár á landnámstímum l ársloka 1940

  

   Romance in Iceland 

    Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 

      Lexikon der altnordischen Literatur,

die mielalterliche Literatur Norwegens und Islands    

  

   The Maer of the North: The Rise of Literary Ficon in

Thirteenth-Century Iceland 

    Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 

    Hervarar saga 

        

        

       Reading Notes  

   Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the

Brish Museum 

   A Concise Diconary of Old Icelandic 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

   

   Normalised edion, based on the text of Lbs 2421 8vo with variants om AM 119 b

8vo, JS 160 fol. and ÍB 277 4to

[58v:15]     

            

             

            

[59r]             

              

              

             

        

               

              

              

                

Added following  

             

                 

               om.   

                

                 

om.                  

      om.         

    om.           

                  om. 

                  

             

      om.           

     

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

Translaon of the text preserved in Lbs 2421 8vo

    

           

                

           

 

               

           

            

              

              

          

             

                

               

               

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

              

             

   

           

               

                 

[59v]                

                

            

           

              

               

             

  

               

              

              

                

             om.      

   om.    om.     om.    

       om.          

                 

           om.       

                 om. 

               

               

     om.             

              

               om.

               

               om.  

             

          

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

             

               

               

    

               

              

             

              

                

                

              

                

             

             

              

              

   

              

            

                

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

           

               

                 

[60r]            

             

              

               

              

                

              

              

                

               

                

              

            

               

      om. 

              om  

                 

           om        

               

                

           om.      

        om.        

  om.            

                

                

               

             om.   

            om.      om.  

  om.       om.    om.      

                   

      om          

       

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

             

                

               

             

            

             

              

                 

             

            

                

             

                

             

                  

              

              

              

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Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

              

[60v]                  

     

            

            

           

                

                

               

             

              

               

               

            

  

                   

                     

  om.          

                

     om.         

      om.        

         om.          

      om.            

                om. 

                  om. 

               

        om.          om.

                   

                 

  om.         om.      

     om.    om.        

  

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

              

                  

             

             

            

              

        

              

             

               

              

                 

              

               

                

             

            

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

              

                 

             

[61r]              

                

            

               

              

          

             

           

             

                  

               

     

                   

               

    om.             

                

                 

                  

                  

                    

       om.    om.    

                

                

          

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

               

            

                

   

             

                

           

              

              

             

           

                 

             

              

  

           

             

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

              

             

               

             

[61v]           

             

               

             

              

          

              

                

       

   om.    om.      om.      

         om.        

               

   om.               

               

             

             om.   

               

                

              

               

               

                

              

             

               

    om.     om        

                 

          

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

           

               

             

            

            

            

               

             

             

        

            

            

            

            

          

              

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

  Ormars þáur    

[78r]    

           

                

            

              

             

         

             

                

               

               

           

             

                

                

            

           

                

        

              

               

            

                

               

            

            

               

             

                

                

                 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

              



           

                 

             

           

              

     

               

              

              

            

               

            

                 [78v]

            

             

         

           

                

      

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender



Efnið úr Ormars rímum       

          Ormars rímur

              

             

           Ormars

þáur 

            

              

 i         

 rímur   Ormars rímur   Gríms rímur og HjálmarsÚlfhams

rímur  Sigurðar rímur Fornasonar       

   fornaldarsögur       

           

           

          rímur  rímur

           

           

         

           

            

         Handrit.is  

            

           

          

      iii     

   Ormars rímur       

   Handrit            

            

  Sprogsamlinger 

               

               

  Handrit

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

      rímur     

            

Ormars rímur           

              

           rímur  

         

               

             

               

                

          

              

    rímur       iv   

          rímur

            

       

        Úlfhams rímur   

                

       rímur   

Ormars rímur  Úlf hams rímur         

        

          

               

             

 

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender



            

              

              

          

             

               

       

           

              

[1v]              

            

                

               

               

               

              

             

              

           

         

[2r]                 

            

              

              

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      



    The Rímur of Ormar        

             

              

             

              

             

              

            

              

                

               

                  

             

             

               

              

               

             

             

              

               

             

           

               

          

              

                

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

             

              

              

              

             

               

           

[2v]                 

               

              

            

     

             

               

            

             

           

                

[2v]                

                

              viii

                

               

      

       rímur            

                   

    

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

           

                

             

             

               

              

            

             

            

              

              

              

              

               

            

             

             

               

               

              

              

               

            

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

              

                 

             

               

             

  

          

              

              

               

            

[3v]             

             

            

             

             

                 

             

   rímur               iii

              

    rímur           



              

     Ormars rímur       

              iv  

                

         

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

                

            

               

               

               

            

            

               

      

             

             

             

               

               

               

           

            

              

                

           

                  

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender

             

           

               

           

          

             

[4r]               

            

     

                

  

                 

                 

                 

            

                

  

                

 

                 

            

Opuscula XX -- version 6

      

                

             

                 

               

              

               

            

              

              

             

              

     

Opuscula XX -- version 6

 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan & Philip Lavender



          

       Ormarsþáur Framars-

sonar     Ormars rímur   Rímur af Ormari Framarssyni 

         Ormars rímur   

             Orm

Ungersvend og Bermer-Rise   Orm Ungersven    Ormaalen unge

            

          

             Hervarar

saga         

            

           

 Ormars þáur         

     Ormars rímur     

            

             

           

            Ormars

rímur             

            

              

      Ormars þáur    

      Ormars rímur        

          Rímur af Ormari

Framarssyni         Ormars þáur   

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      

       

               

          Gøtuskeggja kvæði    

               

         ii        Revelaons 

              

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Jeffrey Scott Love, The Reception of “Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks” from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Munich: Utz 2013

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Nov 2024

Alaric Hall

ARFUR ALDANNA I: Handan Hindarfjalls

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Dec 2021

Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir

The volume is the first of four on the medieval Icelandic fornaldarsögur, a corpus of Old Icelandic sagas that were written mostly in the 13th and 14th centuries. The sagas deal with legendary and fictional heroes and are based on legends that were common to the Nordic and ultimately the Germanic peoples, and which had strong roots in oral tradition and the oral poetry of previous ages. Though many of these legends now survive primarily in narrative form in the fornaldarsögur, they can also be glimpsed in other literature, in archaeological finds, and in medieval art from the Scandinavian countries, Germany, France and the British Isles. The four-volume collection, Arfur aldanna I–IV, seeks to explore, firstly, the origins of this legendary material and how it spread throughout Northern Europe, and secondly, the Icelandic legendary saga corpus, in which this narrative material found its richest and most memorable representation.

"A choice of relationship-revealing variants for a cladistic analysis of Old Norse texts: some methodological considerations", Digital Humanities Symposium Proceedings (2017): pp. 52–74

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Jan 2017

Katarzyna Anna Kapitan

The Matter of the North: The Rise of Literary Fiction in Thirteenth-Century Iceland

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Jan 2002

A Manuscript Collector’s ‘Commonplace Books’: Árni Magnússon (1663-1730) and the Transmission of Conscious Fragmentation

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Jan 2004

Herbert Wäckerlin

The Matter of Gautland

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Apr 2018

Jonathan York Heng Hui

The classification of late medieval literary cycles according to localised subject matter, such as the ‘Matter of France’, the ‘Matter of Britain’ and the ‘Matter of Rome’, has proven to be an enduring one in modern scholarship. This model has also been applied to Old Norse saga literature, particularly the fornaldarsögur, within which the ‘Matter of Hrafnista’ and the ‘Matter of Gautland’ have been identified as prominent examples. The latter cycle consists of Gautreks saga, Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar and Bósa saga ok Herrauðs, all of whose heroes are descended from and primarily based in Gautland (modern-day Götaland in central-southern Sweden). This cycle has not been explored in any great depth, to the same extent that other ‘Matters’ have been, and it is therefore the primary focus of this dissertation. The dissertation begins with a brief overview of previous scholarship on the ancient and medieval Götar and Götaland. This subject has long been of interest to scholars, not least because of the common identification of the Götar with the Geatas mentioned in Old English poetry, most notably Beowulf, but the matter is made notoriously problematic by sparse and sometimes unreliable evidence. Following this overview, introduction is made to Michel Foucault’s theory of the heterotopia, a spatial framework which has only begun to be applied to Old Norse literature within the last decade. Indeed, this dissertation marks the first time that Foucault’s heterotopia has been used as the theoretical framework for an extensive analysis of any Old Norse texts. An important contention of this dissertation is that the depictions of Gautland in Old Norse literature collectively fulfil Foucault’s six criteria of the heterotopia, and furthermore that Gautland can productively be considered a literary heterotopia. Accordingly, after establishing the theoretical framework, I explore the main patterns of conceptualisation found in the depictions of Gautland across the main genres of Old Norse literature. The purpose of this survey is to provide context for a closer analysis of the construction of Gautland in the three ‘Matter of Gautland’ fornaldarsögur. Because these three sagas involve Gautish heroes and, accordingly, feature Gautland as an important space, they inevitably reflect a significant depth of conceptualisation of the region, and the rest of this dissertation employs the heterotopic framework to illuminate the ways in which this conceptualisation is manifested. Each of the three ‘Matter of Gautland’ sagas is analysed in turn, and certain aspects of the construction of Gautland, which happen to correspond strongly to individual principles of Foucault’s heterotopia, are identified as common to all three. All three sagas deploy allusions to prominent traditions associated with Gautland, especially to the celebrated Brávellir and Ragnarr loðbrók legends, the effect of which is to imbue the Gautland of each saga with legendary veracity. All three sagas also construct Gautland within their own system of relational geopolitical space, although these constructions are manifested differently in each saga. Indeed, as well as common aspects, each saga also naturally contains many points of idiosyncratic distinction and nuance in their construction of Gautland as well. Both Gautreks saga and Hrólfs saga are argued to reflect contemporary Icelandic anxieties through structural aspects of their depictions of Gautland, while Gautreks saga and, to a lesser extent, Bósa saga, display a fundamental and significant interest in the geographical landscape of Gautland. In their emphatic correspondence with each individual principle of Foucault’s heterotopia, the collective perspectives of the three ‘Matter of Gautland’ sagas provide unique insight into the medieval Icelandic conceptualisation of Gautland as a literary space.

The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: A Descriptive Catalogue

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Oct 1979

Changing Style and Changing Meaning: Icelandic Historiography and the Medieval Redactions of "Heiðveks saga"

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Mar 2005

Alaric Hall

Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events. Subsequently, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they were increasingly recognized as literary creations that could rarely be taken as reliable narrative histories; this shift was particularly deleterious for the study of the fornaldarsogur, which not only fell from grace sooner, but were not generally thought very good literature either. Here, Hall seeks to anchor these assumptions more firmly in the surviving evidence by analyzing the changing styles, techniques, and intentions of the medieval redactions of Heidreks saga.

Úlfhams saga. Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi: Rit. 53

Jan 2001

Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir

Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir (2001). Úlfhams saga. Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi: Rit. 53. Reykjavík.

Tales of Generations: A Comparison Between Some Icelandic and Geatish Narrative Motifs

Jan 2016
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Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir

Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir (2016). "Tales of Generations: A Comparison Between Some Icelandic and Geatish Narrative Motifs". Scripta Islandica 67: 5-36.

Svenska fornsånger, en samling af kämpavisor, folk-visor, lekar och dansar, samt barn-och vall-sånger. 3 vols

Jan 1834

Adolf Arwidsson
Iwar

Arwidsson, Adolf Iwar (1834). Svenska fornsånger, en samling af kämpavisor, folk-visor, lekar och dansar, samt barn-och vall-sånger. 3 vols. Stockholm.

The Prose Summary as Antiquarian Tool and Literary Springboard: An Edition and Translation of Ormars þáttur Framarsonar.

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