Sagas of Icelanders: Grettis saga / 1st Edit., 1936, Íslenzk fornrit VII

Description: About the item Original title: Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar. Bandamanna saga. Odds þáttr ÓfeigssonarTitle in English: The Saga of Grettir the Strong. The Saga of the Banded Men. The Tale of Oddr Ófeigsson Description: The book is a 1st edition of the collection of The Sagas of Icelanders by Hið íslenzka fornritafélag (The Old Icelandic Text Society) who was founded in 1928 by Jón Ásbjörnsson and is the standard academic publisher of Old Icelandic texts with thorough introductions and comprehensive notes. The Sagas of Icelanders known as best specimens of Old Norse and Icelandic literature. They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries, during the so-called Saga Age. They are focused on Old Norse history, especially genealogical and family history of Icelanders. They reflect the struggle and conflict that arose within the societies of the early generations of Vikings in Iceland. This book "Grettis saga" was published in 1936 under the editorship Guðni Jónsson The book is the collection of Icelanders' sagas and on the details the life of Grettir Ásmundarson, a bellicose Icelandic outlaw, and also the relationship between Odd son of Ofeig (Oddr Ófeigsson) and Ospak son of Glum (Óspakr Glúmsson). The book contains sagas and an introductory part with detailed scientific description, explanations and historical references, many illustrations, geographical maps etc. Also includes the detailed index (Nafnaskrá) who is a list of headings (names, places and titles) and associated pointers to where all material relating to that headings can be found in a in the saga from this book. The index includes all names, places or titles of the people mentioned in this book. The names, places and titles are listed in a single alphabetical sequence and a pointers are volumes and pages numbers. The headings also are includes a short description of a subject.The book contains the following sagas:► Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar is the life story of Iceland’s most famous bellicose outlaw. Disruptive and mischievous as a child, Grettir grows up tobe a man of prodigious strength and courage, who fights berserks, trolls and ghosts, thereby coming to the assistance of many ordinary folk. But hisaggression and arrogance prove hard to control and his greatest feat of strength proves to be his worst misfortune. He kills the ghost Glámr, but notbefore the latter condemns him to an ill-starred life. Grettir then sails to Norway, where he performs many mighty deeds, but is also unwittinglyresponsible for burning down a house in which several Icelanders perish. On returning to Iceland bad news awaits him on three fronts: his fatherhas died, his brother Atli has been killed, and he himself has been sentenced to outlawry at the Althing. After this he is permanently on the run fromthe law, tormented by fear of the dark and relentlessly pursued by his enemies. Through all his tribulations he retains a sense of irony, as reflectedin his gnomic utterances, and he often receives help from the contrasting worlds of men and giants. Grettir’s last years were spent on the island of Drangey, in the company of his brother Illugi. It is there that he is finally brought low by sorcery and treachery.Grettir's saga written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and record stories of events that supposedly took place between the ninth and the eleventh centuries in Iceland. The author is unknown but it is believed that his story may have been based on a previous account of Grettir's life written by Sturla Þórðarson. Whoever the author was, the author shows an awareness of the Sagas of Icelanders tradition by making references to other sagas and borrowing themes from the larger cultural milieu of the Germanic peoples that appear independently in other texts like the Old English Beowulf.► Bandamanna saga was probably written at the end of the Sturlung Age and is only one of the sagas of Icelanders that takes place exclusively afterthe adoption of Christianity in the year 1000. Set for the most part at the Althing, the saga offers a comic critique of the greed and corruption ofIcelandic chieftains. They band together to swindle the young merchant Oddr Ófeigsson. Initially the outlook is grim for Oddr, until his father comesto the rescue, first by winning the support of each chieftain in turn through bribery and flattery, and then by playing one chieftain off against anotheruntil their trickery is rendered ineffectual.► Odds þáttr Ófeigssonar also deals with Oddr Ófeigsson, though the tale has little in common with Bandamanna saga, except that its hero is presented as a worthy merchant in both works. This entertaining tale influenced the Njáls saga account of Þráinn Sigfússon concealing Killer-Hrappr on board his ship.Language: Old Norse & Icelandic Dimensions: 160 × 230 × 40 mm / 6.3 × 9.0 × 1.6 in Weight: 930 g / 33 oz Pages: 408 + Maps Edition: The book is 1st edition by The Old Icelandic Text Society (Hið íslenzka fornritafélag). Printed in Reykjavik in 1936 Condition: Antique book in excellent condition (see photos). Hardcover. On the spine of a book is gold titling. Edges of pages are painted/colored (white with gray speckles). 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