Ragnar's saga loðbrókar

Manuscript of the Ragnars saga loðbrókar

The Ragnars saga loðbrókar (German saga of Ragnar Lodbrok ) is an Old Norse saga about the Viking leader and Danish king Ragnar Lodbrok in the 9th century.

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Aslaug's childhood and youth are described. This is followed by the battle of Ragnar with a dragon . Ragnar marries Thora Borgarhjort. They have sons Ivar , Björn, Hvitserk and Sigurd. Torah dies. Ragnar marries Aslaug, daughter of Sigurd and Brynhild . This is followed by a description of the sons' deeds. In the end, Ragnar dies in a snake pit at the hands of King Oels of Northumbria .

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The saga of Ragnar Lodbrok originated in the 13th century. It ties in with the content of the Völsungen saga and connects its depiction of the legendary Sigurd and Brynhild with historical events of the 9th century.

The Ragnars saga loðbrókar also contains correspondences with information from historical chronicles. With the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus there are parallels in the representation of the advertisement for Torah, the marriage with Aslaug and the deeds of the sons. There are also similarities with Adam von Bremen .

Handwriting

The Ragnars saga loðbrókar is handed down in a parchment manuscript from around 1400. It follows on from a text from the Völsunga saga . The manuscript is now in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen , Sigel Ny kgl. Saml. (NKS) 1824 b 4 ° folio .

expenditure

• Ulf Diedrichs (Ed.): Nordic Nibelungs. The sagas of the Völsungen, by Ragnar Lodbrok and Hrolf Kraki (= Diederichs Yellow Row . 54). Transferred from Old Norse by Paul Herrmann. 2nd Edition. Eugen Diederichs, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-424-00794-3 .
• Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen (transl.): Ragnar-Lodbroks-Saga and Norna-Gests-Saga (= Nordic heroic novels . Volume 5). Joseph Max and Komp., Breslau 1828, digitized .

See also

• Ragnarssona þáttr - story of Ragnar's sons

literature

• Rory McTurk: Studies in "Ragnars saga loðbrókar" and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues (= Medium aevum. Monographs. NS Vol. 15). Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages ​​and Literature, Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-907570-08-9
• Ben Wagoner (translator): The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok. The Troth, New Haven CT 2009, ISBN 978-0-578-02138-6 .
• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .

Remarks

1. ^ Winder McConnell: The Nibelungen Tradition. To Encyclopedia. Taylor and Francis, Hoboken 2013, ISBN 978-0-8153-1785-2 , pp. 77 f., Online .