Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra

Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra c. 1300 is a legendary saga about Halfdan the son of the legendary king Hringr of Denmark.

In the saga, Halfdan flees his father's kingdom after an attack by the Viking

Although numerous sagas contain analogs to the iconic cave battle with Grendel and his mother in Beowulf, none is closer to the Old English epic than is Hálfdan’s cave battle with Járnnefr and his wife.[1] The saga is found in three, 15th-century vellum manuscripts, but its post-medieval popularity is evidenced by its preservation in over four dozen paper manuscripts. ^[2] In the 18th century it served as the source for the first known saga forgery.^[3] Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra has a sequel in

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Translations

• Waggoner, Ben (2010). Sagas of Giants and Heroes. New Haven, CT: Troth Publications.
  ISBN 978-0578059334
  . (Saga of Halfdan, Brana's Fosterling, pp. 87-110)

References

1. ^ Peter A. Jorgensen,The Two-Troll Variant of the Bear's Son Folktale in Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra and Gríms saga Lodinkinna, ARV: Journal of Scandinavian Folklore, vol. 31 (1975), pp. 35-43.
2. ^ Jorgensen, p. 36.
3. ^ Peter A. Jorgensen, ,"Hafgeirs saga Flateyings: An Eighteenth-Century Forgery," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 76 (1977), pp. 155-164.

Sources and external links

• The saga in Old Norse at Snerpa.
• The saga in Old Norse at «Norrøne Tekster og Kvad».
• The saga in Old Norse at Northvegr.
• Helpful Danes and Pagan Irishmen: Saga Fantasies of the Viking Age in the British Isles, by Elizabeth Ashman Rowe.

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