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The enmity between Porgrímr and Vésteinn in the Gísla Saga Súrssonar

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  1. Anne Holtsmark: Studies in the Gisla Saga. Studia Norvegica Ethnologica et Folkloristica, Vol. II, Oslo 1956; pp. 1–55; esp. pp. 34–55.

  2. Hermann Palsson: Death in Autumn, tragic elements in early Icelandic fiction: introductory essay to BONIS (Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic Studies); 1973, pp. 1–39. id.: Hver myrti Véstein i Gisla Sögu? Andvari N.F. XVII, 1973, pp. 133–7.

  3. Theodore M. Andersson: Some Ambiguities in Gisla Saga: a Balance Sheet, Introductory Essay to BONIS 1968, pp. 7–42, esp. p. 28.

  4. Claiborne W. Thompson: Gisla Saga: The Identity of Véstein's Slayer. Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi LXXXVIII, 1973, pp. 85–90.

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  5. Einkur Björnsson: Enn um vigið Vesteins. Andvari N.F. XVIII, pp. 114–7.

  6. Gisla Saga, Surssonar Islenzk Fornrit (IF) VI, Reykjavik 1943. Other quotations will be taken from Landnámabok, IF I2, Reykjavik 1968: Eyrbyggja Saga, IF IV, Reykjavik 1935, and Hallfreðar Saga, IF VIII, Reykjavik 1939.

  7. Velsunga Saga, ed. W. Ranisch, Berlin 1891.

  8. Anne Holtsmark, op. cit., p. 41, p. 47: Th. M. Andersson: op. cit., p. 38. Cp. Heinrich M. Heinrichs: Nibelungensage and Gisla Saga, Festgabe Leopold Magon, Berlin 1958, pp. 22–29; esp. p. 27.

  9. The notable exception is the second son of Hallfreðr vandræðaskald, who is also called Hallfreðr (IF VIII, p. 178). Cp. K. A. Eckhardt: Irdische Unsterblichkeit, Weimar 1937, passim.

  10. Velsunga Saga, pp. 55–6. Like Sigurðr both Vesteinn and Porgrimr were killed by the side of a woman, though in Vestein's case she was his sister. Porgrim's death has a close resemblance to that of Sigurðr. See H. Palsson: Death in Autumn, pp. 15–9.

  11. Jan de Vries: Der altnordische Rasengang: Kleine Schriften, Berlin 1965, pp. 89–112; esp. pp. 89–90. Cp. H. M. Heinrichs: op. cit., p. 26: Magnus Olsen: Gisla Saga og Heltediktningen. Festskrift til Finnur Jonsson, Copenhagen 1928.

  12. Franz Seewald: Die Gisla Saga Surssonar, Göttingen 1934, p. 8; Reinhard Prinz: Die Schöpfung der Gisla Saga Surssonar, Breslau 1935, p. 36.

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Kroesen, R. The enmity between Porgrímr and Vésteinn in the Gísla Saga Súrssonar. Neophilologus 66, 386–390 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01998983

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