Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Göngu-Hrólfs saga

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Boyer, Régis, ed. Saga de Hrólfr sans terre. Toulouse: Anacharsis, 2004.
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Hermann Pálsson, and Paul Edwards, eds. Göngu-Hrolfs saga. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1980.
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Nilssen, Kjell Tore, and Árni Ólafsson, eds. "Gange-Hrolfs saga". Published 2014.
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Simek, Rudolf, Sarah Onkels, Lukas Orfgen, Valerie Broustin, Maike Hanneck, and Jonas Zeit-Altpeter, ed. "Die Saga von Göngu-Hrolf." In Sagas aus der Vorzeit, edited by Rudolf Simek, Valerie Broustin and Jonas Zeit-Altpeter. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2020.
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Cole, Richard. "Towards a Typology of Absence in Old Norse Literature." Exemplaria 28, no. 2 (2016): 137-160.
Davíð Erlingsson. "Fótaleysi göngumanns: Atlaga til ráðningar á frumþáttum táknmáls í sögu af Hrólfi Sturlaugssyni; Ásamt formála." Skírnir 170 (1996): 340-356.
Davíð Erlingsson. Fótaleysi göngumanns: Bæklingur í tveimur hlutum. Reykjavík, 1995.
Dünninger, Joseph. "Untersuchungen zur Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga." Pts. 1 and 2. Arkiv för nordisk filologi 47 (1931): 309-346; 48 (1932): 31-60.*
Frankis, John. Review of Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland, by Marianne E. Kalinke. Scandinavica 31, no. 2 (1992): 237-239.
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Haki Antonsson. "Salvation and Early Saga Writing in Iceland: Aspects of the Works of the Þingeyrar Monks and their Associates." Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 8 (2012): 71-140.*
Heide, Eldar. "Spirits Through Respiratory Passages." In The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature: Sagas and the British Isles; Preprint Papers of The 13th International Saga Conference; Durham and York, 6th-12th August, 2006, edited by John McKinnell, David Ashurst and Donata Kick, 1: 350-358. Durham: The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, 2006.
Hermann Pálsson. "Early Icelandic Imaginative Literature." In Medieval Narrative: A Symposium, edited by Hans Bekker-Nielsen, 20-30. Odense: Odense University Press, 1979.
Hollander, Lee M. "The Faithless Wife Motif in Old Norse Literature." Modern Language Notes 27, no. 3 (1912): 71-73.
Holzapfel, Otto. "Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga." In Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon, edited by Walter Jens, 18: 654-655. München: Kindler, 1992.*
Jackson, Tatjana N. "On the Possible Sources of the Textual Map of Denmark in Göngu-Hrólfs saga." In Skemmtiligastar Lygisögur: Studies in Honour of Galina Glazyrina, edited by Tatjana N. Jackson and Elena A. Melnikova, 62-70. Moscow: Dmitriy Pozharskiy University, 2012.
Jónas Kristjánsson. "*Njáls saga." In Gudar på jorden: Festskrift till Lars Lönnroth, edited by Stina Hansson and Mats Malm, 119-130. Stockholm: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2000.
Jón Jónsson. "Göngu-Hrólfr." Skírnir 86 (1912): 15-34.*
Jungandreas, Wolfgang. "Zur Hildesage." Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 54 (1930): 312-315.
Kalinke, Marianne E. "The Foreign Language Requirement in Medieval Icelandic Romance." The Modern Language Review 78, no. 4 (1983): 850-861.
Kalinke, Marianne E. "Birds of Another Feather: French Song-Birds in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." In Grenzerfahrung - Grenzüberschreitung: Studien zu den Literaturen Skandinaviens und Deutschlands. Festschrift für P. M. Mitchell, edited by Leonie Marx and Herbert Knust, 1-11. Heidelberg: Winter, 1989.
Kalinke, Marianne E. "Fathers, Mothers, and Daughters: Hver er að ráða?" In Cold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology, edited by Sarah M. Anderson and Karen Svenson, 169-188. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Lönnroth, Lars. "Hetjurnar líta bleika akra." Skírnir 144 (1970): 12-30.
Lönnroth, Lars. "Fornaldarsagans genremässiga metamorfoser: Mellan Edda-myt och riddarroman." In Fornaldarsagornas struktur och ideologi: Handlingar från ett symposium i Uppsala 31.8-2.9 2001, edited by Ármann Jakobsson, Annette Lassen and Agneta Ney, 37-45. Nordiska texter och undersökningar 28. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2003.*
Lövkrona, Inger. "The Pregnant Frog and the Farmer's Wife: Childbirth in the Middle Ages as Shown through a Legend." Arv 45 (1989): 73-124.
Magoun Jr., Francis P. "Whence Dúlcifal in Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga?" In Studia Germanica tillägnade Ernst Albin Kock den 6 december 1934, 176-191. Lund, 1934.*
Martin, John D. "Hreggviðr's Revenge: Supernatural Forces in Göngu-Hrólfs saga." Scandinavian Studies 70 (1998): 313-324.*
Matyushina, Inna. "Magic Mirrors, Monsters, Maiden-Kings: The Fantastic in Riddarasögur." In The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature: Sagas and the British Isles; Preprint Papers of The 13th International Saga Conference; Durham and York, 6th-12th August, 2006, edited by John McKinnell, David Ashurst and Donata Kick, 2: 660-670. Durham: The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, 2006.
Motz, Lotte. "New Thoughts on Dwarf Names in Old Icelandic." Frühmittelalterliche Studien 7 (1973): 100-117.
Mundal, Else. "The Growth of Consciousness of Fiction in Old Norse Culture." In Medieval Narratives between History and Fiction: From the Centre to the Periphery of Europe, c. 1100-1400, edited by Panagiotis A. Agapitos and Lars Bøje Mortensen, 167-198. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012.*
Mundt, Marina. "Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga." In Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Joseph R. Strayer, 5: 576-577. New York: Scribner, 1985.*
Naumann, Hans-Peter. "Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga." In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, edited by Phillip Pulsiano, 254-255. New York: Garland, 1993.*
O'Connor, Ralph. "Truth and Lies in the fornaldarsögur: The Prologue to Göngu-Hrólfs saga." In Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og virkelighed; Studier i de oldislandske "fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda", edited by Agneta Ney, Ármann Jakobsson and Annette Lassen, 361-378. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2009.*
Olsen, Magnus. "Gange-Rolvs strandhugg." Maal og minne (1912): 104-107.*
Panzer, Friedrich. "Das russische Brautwerbermärchen in Nibelungenlied." Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 72 (1950): 463-498.
Also in: Panzer, Friedrich. "Das russische Brautwerbermärchen in Nibelungenlied." In Zur germanisch-deutschen Heldensage: Sechzehn Aufsätze zum neuen Forschungsstand, edited by Karl Hauck, 138-169. Wege der Forschung 14. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1965.
Radzin, Hilda. "The Name Gǫngu-Hrólf in the Old Norse Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga." Literary Onomastics Studies 1 (1974): 47-52.*
Richter, Friederike. "Böse Blicke, Gift und Feuer: Drachenkämpfe am Beispiel der isländischen Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga sowie von Thors Fischzug." helden. heroes. héros: E-Journal zu Kulturen des Heroischen 3.1 (2015): 123-134.*
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Roberts, Jonjo. "Religious Visions and Christian Rule in Old Icelandic Romance." In The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature: Sagas and the British Isles; Preprint Papers of The 13th International Saga Conference; Durham and York, 6th-12th August, 2006, edited by John McKinnell, David Ashurst and Donata Kick, 2: 826-835. Durham: The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, 2006.
Schröder, Franz Rolf. "Gunthers Brautwerbung und die Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga." In Festschrift Eugen Mogk zum 70. Geburtstag 19. Juli 1924, 582-595. Halle a. S.: Niemeyer, 1924.*
Schröder, Franz Rolf. "Die nibelungische Erweckungssage." Zeitschrift für Deutschkunde 44 (1930): 433-449.
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Also in: See, Klaus von. Edda, Saga, Skaldendichtung: Aufsätze zur skandinavischen Literatur des Mittelalters. Skandinavistische Arbeiten 6. Heidelberg: Winter, 1981, 506-510.
Stackmann, Karl. "Einleitung." In Kudrun, edited by Karl Bartsch, vii-xcvii. Wiesbaden: Brockhaus, 1980.
Storm, Gustav. Kritiske bidrag til vikingetidens historie. Kristiania: Den norske forlagsforening, 1878.*
Szokody, Oliver. "Sigurds Schwertprobe im Rhein: Eine kontinental-nordische Berührung?" In Verschränkung der Kulturen: Der Sprach- und Literaturaustausch zwischen Skandinavien und den deutschsprachigen Ländern; Zum 65. Geburtstag von Hans-Peter Naumann, edited by Oskar Bandle, Jürg Glauser and Stefanie Würth, 239-245. Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 37. Tübingen: Francke, 2004.
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Viðar Hreinsson. "Göngu-Hrólfur á galeiðunni." Skáldskaparmál 1 (1990): 131-141.*
Wills, Tarrin. "Physiology and Behaviour in the Sagas." Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 8 (2012): 279-297.
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