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 Grettis saga Information
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 Grettis saga (also known as Grettla, Grettir's Saga or The Saga of Grettir the Strong) is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It details the life of (the possibly fictional) Grettir Ásmundarson, an Icelandic warrior who became an... 
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 Scandinavian Studies Die Grettis Saga: Die Saga von Grettir dem Starken.(Review) (book review)
03/22/2000: 1,184 words, approx. 4 pages Seelow, Hubert, ed. and trans. Die Grettis Saga: Die Saga von Grettir dem Starken. Saga: Island -- Literatur und Geschichte. Saga: Bibliothek der altnordischen Literatur. Ed. Kurt Schier. Munich: Diederichs, 1998. Pp. 303. DM 58,00 (EUR 29,65). The two volumes under review... summary from source:
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 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Magnús Fjalldal
11,535 words, approx. 39 pages
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 evidence of imaginative speculation than of literary research.
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Critical Essay by Lotte Motz
8,731 words, approx. 29 pages
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 individuality is sublimated.
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Critical Essay by Robert J. Glendinning
6,871 words, approx. 23 pages
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.
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