Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Frá Fornjóti og ættmönnum hans

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Chappell, Gavin, ed. "The Discovery of Norway". Published 2004.
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Nilssen, Kjell Tore, and Árni Ólafsson, eds. "Hvorledes Norge ble bosatt: Oppdagelsen av Norge; Om Opplandskongene". Published 2014.
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Andersen, Peter Hvilshøj. Die Nibelungen zogen nach Dänemark: Eine Neuinterpretation der Erzählung "Von Hven zwischen Seeland und Schonen". Bremer Beiträge zur Literatur- und Ideengeschichte 48. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2007.
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.
Böldl, Klaus. Der Mythos der Edda: Nordische Mythologie zwischen europäischer Aufklärung und nationaler Romantik. Tübingen: Francke, 2000.
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Heide, Eldar. "Loki, the Vätte, and the Ash Lad: A Study Combining Old Scandinavian and Late Material." Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 7 (2011): 63-106.
Heide, Eldar. "Bárðar saga as a Source for Reconstruction of Pre-Christian Religion?" In Folklore in Old Norse: Old Norse in Folklore, edited by Daniel Sävborg and Karen Bek-Pedersen, 170-180. Nordistica Tartuensia 20. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2014.
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