Kries, Susanne & Thomas Krömmelbein. Context and Composion

• Author: Kries, Susanne & Thomas Krömmelbein
• Title: Context and Composion: Language as Art in Egill‘s Hofuðlausn
• Published in: Sagas and the Norwegian Experience: Preprints. 10th International Saga Conference. Trondheim, 3.-9. August 1997
• Place, Publisher: Trondheim: Senter for middelalderstudier
• Year: 1997
• Pages: 369-78
• E-text:
• Reference: Kries, Susanne & Thomas Krömmelbein. "Context and Composion: Language as Art in Egill‘s Hofuðlausn." Sagas and the Norwegian Experience: Preprints. 10th International Saga Conference. Trondheim, 3.-9. August 1997, pp. 369-78. Trondheim: Senter for middelalderstudier, 1997.

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• Key words: poetry (kveðskapur)

Annotation

Saga Conference preprint on the literary and contextual significance of Höfuðlausn that argues that it is “no less complex than Egill’s other major poems“ (377). Textual criticism of the poem, discussion of its form and an interpretation of the context in which it was composed, with focus on kenningar and Egil’s relationship with Óðinn.

Lýsing

Umfjöllun um bókmenntalega merkingu Höfuðlausnar og tengsl hennar við texta sögunnar. Höfundar halda því fram að kvæðið sé ekki síður flókið en önnur meginkvæði Egils. Fjallað er um rannsóknarsögu kvæðisins, form þess og frásögn sögunnar af sköpun þess, auk þess sem athygli er beint að kenningum Egils og sambandi hans við Óðinn.

References

Chapter 62: hóf upp kvæðið: "We see that Höfuðlausn is no less complex than Egill’s other major poems. What is more, the context of the saga, the interpretation of the poem and its reflection by Egill himself, mark it as the climax in Egill’s self-stylization as a skald and his artistic independence from royal power" (p. 377).

Links

• Written by: Katelin Parsons
• Icelandic translation: Jón Karl Helgason