Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags

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Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1967, Side 66

Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1967, Side 66
70 ÁRBÓK FORNLEIFAFÉLAGSINS SUMMARY The starting-point of the present paper is an article vvritten by the well known Danish scholar Japetus Steenstrup and published in Aarboger for nordisk Oldkynd- ighed og Historie 1871. In his paper Steenstrup discusses the natural phenomenon called hafgeröingar, sometimes referred to in medieval Icelandic sources and de- scribed at some length in the Norwegian King’s Mirror (Konungsskuggsjá, Speculum Regale). Steenstrup tried to show that the hafgeröingar very probably were due to submarine earthquake and he brought together a good inany accounts from his own times in order to throw light upon the phenomenon described in the King’s Mirror. Moreover he thought that the description in the King's Mirror was based on one certain hafgeröingar, namely the one which caused the Hafgerð- ingadrápa to be composed by a Hebridean on board Herjúlfur Bjarnason’s boat heading for Greenland in the year 986, as related in the Grænlendinga saga in the Flateyjarbók. Steenstrup also believed that the hafgeröingar which gave rise to the Hafgerðingadrápa, also was the cause of the disaster, which struck the fleet of Erik the Red and his followers on their way to Greenland in the same year. The present author finds that the two last of Steenstrup’s points really are pure guesswork, but he admits that hafgeröingar as described in the King’s Mirror could have been caused by earthquake on the bottom of the sea. The true aim of the article, however, is to show that the term liafgeröingar in the old Icelandic and Norwegian sources was used in a wider sense than assumed by Steenstrup. In thc author’s opinion any sudden and violent turbulence of the sea might have been called hafgeröingar, no matter which natural forces caused it. In order to prove his point he quotes a séries of accounts from the experience of Icelandic sailors and fishermen in later times. Some of the phenomena described in these accounts of eyewitnesses could, in the author’s opinion, serve as illustrations to the hafgerö- ingar of the King’s Mirror and other medieval writings.
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