Baldur Hafstað. Das Dilemma des Gefolgsmannes: Freundschaft in der Egils saga
- Author: Baldur Hafstað
- Title: Das Dilemma des Gefolgsmannes: Freundschaft in der Egils saga
- Published in: Die Egils saga und ihr Verhältnis zu anderen Werken des nordischen Mittelalters Ph.D. Diss.
- Place, Publisher: Reykjavík: Rannsóknarstofnun Kennaraháskóla Íslands
- Year: 1995
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- Reference: Baldur Hafstað. Die Egils saga und ihr Verhältnis zu anderen Werken des nordischen Mittelalters. Ph.D. Diss. Reykjavík: Rannsóknarstofnun Kennaraháskóla Íslands, 1995.
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Annotation
In the first chapter of his dissertation Hafstað examines how the ideas of friendship and allegiance are described in Egil's saga. For these considerations, he describes how these themes are dealt with in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla and further developed in Egil's Saga. The blind humbleness described in Heimskringla develops into a loyal and autonomous allegiance which, in case of doubt, can be directed against the king to support a friend's cause in Egil's Saga. Based on his analysis, Hafstað proposes that Snorri Sturluson was the author of Egil's Saga. He also draws parallels to the life of Snorri who in his youth was blinded by the splendour and glamour of the Norwegian royal court but later caught in-between the Norwegian king and allegiance to his own countrymen.
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See also
- Baldur Hafstað. Die Jórvík-Fahrt, der Gísls þáttr und die Arinbjarnarkviða
- Baldur Hafstað. Konungsmenn í kreppu og vinátta í Egils sögu
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