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The reforged weapon in the Gísla Saga Súrssonar

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  1. Sturlunga Saga II, ed. Guðni Jónsson, Reykjavík 1954.

  2. Cp. Anne Holtsmark: Studies in the Gisla Saga, Studie Norvegica Ethnologica et Folkloristica, Vol. II, Oslo 1956, p. 12.

  3. ib., pp. 13–'6.

  4. ib., pp. 14/'5.

  5. Quotations are from the edition of íslenzk Fornrit VI, (ed. Björn K. Porólfsson and Guðni Jónsson, Reykjavik 1943.

  6. Volsunga Saga, Fornaldar Sögur Norðlanda, ed. Guðni Jónsson, Reykjavík 1976, Vol. I, pp. 136/'7.

  7. Volsunga Saga, p. 146; cp. Reginsmál, prose between 16 and 17, Edda, ed. Gustav Neckel and Hans Kuhn, Heidelberg 1962.

  8. Riðill: Volsunga Saga, p. 155; Fáfnismál, prose between 26 and 27.Hrotti: Volsunga Saga, p. 156; Fáfnismál, prose at the end.

  9. The question was treated by Reinhard Prinz: Die Schöpfung der Gisla Saga Súrssonar, Breslau 1934, pp. 4–8, and his conclusions were accepted by other scholars without serious discussion.

  10. For the U-version see: Heiðreks Konungs ins Vitra, ed. and transl. by Christopher Tolkien, Appendix A, p. 68. For the other versions: Tolkien, p. 1; Fornaldar Sögur Norðrlanda II, p. 1.

  11. Fornaldar Sögur Norðrlanda I, pp. 387/'8.

  12. Fornaldar Sögur Norðrlanda II, p. 369.

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Kroesen, R. The reforged weapon in the Gísla Saga Súrssonar. Neophilologus 66, 569–573 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956501

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