Horses, Lakes, and Heroes: Landnámabók S83, Vǫlsunga saga 13, and the Grey of Macha

Landnámabók contains an anecdote about Auðun stoti, ‘the Stutterer’, an early Icelandic settler, who encounters a magnificent grey horse that emerges from and ultimately returns to a lake on the Snafellsnes peninsula. Certain key characteristics of this horse recall Grani, the horse of the hero Sigu...

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Main Author: Egeler, Matthias 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brepols 2014
In: Viking and medieval Scandinavia
Year: 2014, Volume: 10, Pages: 53-63
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