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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| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2014
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Viking and medieval Scandinavia
Year: 2014, Volume: 10, Pages: 53-63 |
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