Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Eiríks saga víðförla

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Bjarni Vilhjálmsson, and Guðni Jónsson, eds. Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda. Reykjavík, 1943-1944,
Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson, ed. Eiríks saga víðförla. Reykjavík: Iðna, 1993.

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Musikas, Claire, ed. "Eireks saga víðförla". Published 01 February 2011. [MA-thesis Háskóli Íslands]
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Tunstall, Peter, ed. "The Tale of Eirek the Traveller". Published 2005.
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Ashurst, David. "Imagining Paradise." 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: 71-80. Durham: The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, 2006.
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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.*
Hofmann, Dietrich. "Zu Oddr Snorrasons Yngvars saga víðfǫrla." Skandinavistik 14, no. 2 (1984): 106-108.*
Jensen, Helle. "Eiríks saga víðfǫrla: Appendiks 3." In The Sixth International Saga Conference 28/7-2/8 1985: Workshop Papers, 1: 499-512. København: Det Arnamagnæanske Institut, 1985.*
Jensen, Helle. "Eiríks saga víðfǫrla." In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, edited by Phillip Pulsiano, 160-161. New York: Garland, 1993.*
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Kleivane, Elise. "When Small Words Make a Big Difference: On Adaption and Transmission of Text in Late Medieval Manuscripts." In Á austrvega. Saga and East Scandinavia: Preprint Papers of The 14th International Saga Conference Uppsala, 9th-15th August 2009, edited by Agneta Ney, Henrik Williams and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, 1: 513-520. Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2009.*
Kolbrún Haraldsdóttir. "Eiríks saga viðfǫrla í miðaldahandritum." Gripla 30 (2019): 47-75.*
Kuldkepp, Mart. "A Study in Distance: Travel and Holiness in Eiríks saga rauða and Eireks saga víðförla." In Storied and Supernatural Places: Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas, edited by Ülo Valk and Daniel Sävborg, 206-219. Studia Fennica Folkloristica 23. Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society, 2018.*
Larrington, Carolyne. "Undruðusk þá, sem fyrir var: Wonder, Vínland, and Mediaeval Travel-Narratives." Mediaeval Scandinavia 14 (2004): 91-114.
Maraschi, Andrea. "Hunger Games: Supernatural Strategies against Hunger in the Medieval North." Arkiv för nordisk filologi 133 (2018): 29-51.
Moberg, Ove. "Två historiografiska undersökningar." Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie (1945): 5-45.
Musikas, Claire. "A Road to India: The Example of Eireks saga víðförla." Brathair 11, no. 1 (2011): 95-104.*
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Simek, Rudolf. Die Quellen der Eiríks saga víðförla: Anmerkungen zu Helle Jensen (Hrsg:): Eiríks saga víðförla, Københaven [sic] 1983 (1984) (Editiones Arnamagnaeanae, Ser. B, Vol. 29). Skandinavistik 14, no. 2 (1984): 109-114.*
Sverrir Jakobsson. "On the Road to Paradise: 'Austrvegr' in the Icelandic Imagination." 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: 935-943. Durham: The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, 2006.*
Sverrir Jakobsson. "Det islandske verdensbillede og dets udvikling fra opblomstring til renæssance." In Den norröna renässansen: Reykholt, Norden och Europa 1150-1300, edited by Karl G. Johansson, 63-72. Snorrastofa Rit 4. Reykholt: Snorrastofa, Cultural and Medieval Centre, 2007.
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