Víglundar saga

The Víglundar saga or Víglundar saga og Ketilríðar (alternatively: Þorgríms saga prúða ok Víglundar væna ) is an Icelandic saga from the 14th century . The late saga is shaped by a romantic love story that develops the material of the separated and reunited love between Víglundr and Ketilríðr. There are influences and analogies to other sagas such as the Riddarsagas with the Friðþjófs saga and the Kormáks saga in prosody .

Ketilríðr's mother and brothers are against their relationship with Víglundr. The conflict escalates, in the course of which Víglundr kills one of the brothers in self-defense and is then banished. The woman is meanwhile married to an old man who does not consume the marriage, so that a happy reunification of the couple is possible.

literature

• Kurt Schier : saga literature. Metzler Collection, Volume 78: Reality books for Germanists. Metzler, Stuttgart 1970, ISSN  0558-3667 .
• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .
• Jan de Vries : Old Norse literary history. 3rd, unchanged. Edition in one volume with a foreword by Stefanie Würth (= Outline of Germanic Philology. 15/16). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016330-6 . ( fee required from de Gruyter ).