Hjálmþérs saga


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Ibáñez Lluch, Santiago, ed. Sa saga de Fridthjóf el valiente y otras sagas islandesas. Madrid: Miraguano Ediciones, 2009.
Sander, Fredrik, ed. Nordisk mythologi: Gullveig eller Hjalmters och Ölvers saga. Stockholm: Norstedt & Söner, 1887.
Starý, Jiří, Lucie Korecká, Ondřej Himmer, Marie Novotná, Markéta Podolská, Kateřina Ratajová, David Šimeček, and Pavel Vondřička, eds. Lživé ságy starého severu. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2015.
Stitt, J. Michael, ed. Beowulf and the Bear's Son: Epic, Saga, and Fairytale in Northern Germanic Tradition. The Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition 8. New York: Garland, 1992.
Wahnig, Anja, ed. "Die Saga von Hjalmther und Ölver." In Sagas aus der Vorzeit, edited by Rudolf Simek, Valerie Broustin and Jonas Zeit-Altpeter. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2020.

Almqvist, Bo. "Fípan fagra och Drósin á Girtlandi: Ett par färöiska ballader i belysning av fornaldarsagor och sentida folktradition på Island och Irland." Fróðskaparrit 42 (1994): 85-102.
Ármann Jakobsson. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bárðar saga and Its Giants." 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: 54-62. Durham: The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, 2006.
Davidson, H[ilda] R[oderick] Ellis. "The Smith and the Goddess: Two Figures on the Franks Casket from Auzon." Frühmittelalterliche Studien 3 (1969): 216-226.
Einar Ól. Sveinsson. "Svipdag's Long Journey: Some Observations on Gróagaldr and Fjölsvinnsmál." Béaloideas  (1971-1973): 298-319.
Also in: Einar Ól. Sveinsson. "Svipdag's Long Journey." In Hereditas: Essays and Studies presented to Professor Séamus Ó Duilearga, edited by Bo Almqvist, Breandán Mac Aodha and Gearóid Mac Eoin, 298-319. Dublin: Folklore of Ireland Society, 1975.
Gould, Chester Nathan. "The Source of an Interpolation in the Hjalmtérs saga ok Ölvis." Modern Philology 7, no. 2 (1909): 207-216.*
Harris, Richard. "Hjálmþés saga." In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, edited by Phillip Pulsiano, 285-286. New York: Garland, 1993.*
Hermann Pálsson. "Hjálmþérs saga ok Ölvis." In Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Joseph R. Strayer, 6: 266-267. New York: Scribner, 1985.*
O'Connor, Ralph. "'Stepmother Sagas': An Irish Analogue for Hjálmþérs saga ok Ölvérs." Scandinavian Studies 72, no. 1 (2000): 1-48.*
Poole, Russell. "Myth and Ritual in the Háleygjatal of Eyvindr skáldaspillir." In Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross, edited by Judy Quinn, Kate Heslop and Tarrin Wills, 153-176. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 18. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
Power, Rosemary. "Geasa and Álög: Magic Formulae and Perilous Quests in Gaelic and Norse." Scottish Studies 28 (1987): 69-89.
Reinhard, John Revell. The Survival of geis in Mediaeval Romance. Halle a. S.: Niemeyer, 1933.
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