Sturlaugs saga starfsama

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The Sturlaugs saga starfsama ("Saga of the hardworking Sturlaugr") is an Icelandic prehistoric saga ( fornaldarsaga ), which was written around 1300. In terms of material, the saga is one of the adventure sagas within the genre.

The text has been handed down through the manuscripts AM 335, 4 ° and AM 589 f, 4 °. The Sturlaugs saga is considered older than the Göngu-Hrólfs saga because Sturlaugr is mentioned in the Göngu-Hrólfs saga as the father of Göngu-Hrólfr.

The introduction is borrowed from Snorri's prologue from his Prose Edda , in which the immigration of the sir to Scandinavia is described. Furthermore, medieval knowledge is received in the saga, as it appears in the plot of the journey from Sturlaugr to the land of Rus to "Bjarmaland" ( Bjarmar = Old Norse for an ethnonym, presumably from the White Sea ) and to the fabulous "Hundingjaland". For this part, literature in the succession of Isidore of Seville , namely the ethnographic part of his encyclopedia, was used as a template; in the relation of the Hundingjar to the Kynokephale .

action

The action is set in Norway and Sweden in the 9th century. Sturlaugr, son of Hersen Ingólfr, and King Harald Fairhair advertise both for the favor of the beautiful Ása, daughter of Jarl. Now, however, the old king is challenged to a duel by a berserker - which he is no longer physically capable of. So Sturlaugr willingly jumps into the breach for Harald, but on the cunning condition that the king gives up his claims on Ása. A fight ensues in which the berserker is supported by his brother; Sturlaugr defeats them both through the magical influence of Véfreyja, Ása's mother. Sturlaugr and Ása get married, but the disgruntled king - whether the loss of his wife - seeks revenge and therefore sends Sturlaugr on a trip to Bjarmaland to bring an ominous horn of an auroch into the possession of the king and almost en passant the Bjarma- and To conquer Hundingjaland with. Sturlaugr succeeds in both, and as a result he also succeeds in social advancement to the office of king over Sweden. In the further course of the action, accompanied and actively supported by his blood brother Framarr, he undertakes further adventurous journeys in which, among other things, he tries to find out the origin of the horn he has won. His partner goes on an amorous adventure by seducing a Russian princess. Afterwards, further successfully passed adventures are described to finish off.

literature

expenditure

  • Guðni Jónsson: Fornaldar sögur Norðurlanda 1–4. Reykjavík 1950.
  • OJ Zitzelsberger: The two versions of Sturlaugs saga Starfsama: A decipherment, edition, and translation of a fourteenth century Icelandic mythical-heroic saga , 1969. (Transfer of the Swedish model by Gudmundur Olofzson: Sagann af Sturlauge hinum starfsama. Uppsala 1694.)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ AM 335, 4 °
  2. ↑ AM 589 f, 4 °
  3. ^ Rudolf Simek, Hermann Pálsson: Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 , p. 338.