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It was at the suggestion of Professor John M. Manly that I took up the study which has resulted in the following dissertation, and from him I have received much encouragement and valuable assistance on numerous occasions. I have profited by suggestions received from Professor...
These stories seem, indeed, at first sight more rational than the story in the saga, and have features more in harmony with the account in Saxo; but this does not prove that the...
2. Chapter 2In the course of time, Dunewal, King of the Scots, was ejected from his kingdom. He sought the aid of Siward, who gathered an army and proceeded as far as Dundee, when news was...
3. Chapter 3Another feature of the first part of the story that should be noticed is the dual nature of the monster. A dragon was as terrible a creature as one could imagine; a troll was al...
4. Chapter 4Whether Hott has a sword of his own the saga does not tell, and it is quite immaterial. That such a coward as Hott has been has no business carrying a sword, would be sufficient...
7. Chapter 7Our next question is, What stories of the "exile-return" type were current in the portions of England in which the Hroar-Helgi story would naturally circulate? We think, of cour...
10. Chapter 10[Footnote 24: _Eng. Stud._, 1905, XXXV, pp. 19 ff. The similarity between "Gullinhjalti," in the _Hrólfssaga_, and "gylden hilt," in _Beowulf_, was first pointed out by Friedric...
6. Chapter 66. The _Bjarkarímur_ are a later composition than the _Hrólfssaga_.[124] The author of the _rímur_ has discarded the story of the troll-dragon, has substituted for it the story...
8. Chapter 8Still another feature may have been acquired from the Macbeth story. It is said that Hroar and Helgi were transferred to a neighboring island. Holinshed says that Donaldbane fle...
1. Chapter 1It was at the suggestion of Professor John M. Manly that I took up the study which has resulted in the following dissertation, and from him I have received much encouragement an...
9. Chapter 9"Nu forstaar vi Ingelds nationalitetsskifte. Det mærkelige er blot, at de oprindelige Daner blev gjorte til Saksere. Men også, dette fölger af den episke udvikling. Når den gaml...
11. Chapter 11[Footnote 118: Finnur Jónsson has also been struck by the similarity between the story connected with Bjarki's birth and the second story in the _rímur_, in which Hjalti slays a...