In the following essay, Glendinning examines elements of the novella genre present in the Grettis Saga as well as motifs and devices it shares with the literature of continental Europe.
During the sec...
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In the following essay, Motz provides instances in which the main characternof the Grettis Saga, Grettir, conforms to patterns of the hero in myth, tradition, and ritual, with the result that his indi...
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In the following essay, Turville-Petre compares and contrasts several specific episodes in the Grettis Saga with comparable ones in Beowulf.
Beowulf pursues Grendel's mother into her lair, deep...
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In the following essay, Peters discusses the prevalence of hryggspenna, a type of combat wrestling, in the Grettis Saga.
Two distinct forms of wrestling are employed in Grettis Saga, an older Nordic h...
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In the following essay, Cook demonstrates some ways of discerning and evaluating character in the Grettis Saga.
The modern reader, brought up on novels and unused to the Sagas of Icelanders, will at f...
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In the following excerpt, Fjalldal refutes critical assertions of relationship between the characters of the Grettis Saga with those of Beowulf, claiming that many comparatists have shown more evidenc...
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Critical Essay by Robert J. Glendinning
