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
• 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. Reykjavík: Rannsóknarstofnun Kennaraháskóla Íslands, 1995.

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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, the author consults Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla and describes how these themes are further developed in Egils 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 Egils saga. He also draws parallels to the life of Snorri who once 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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