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harder to say. The Fragmentary version of the saga, emended by Jón
Hákonarson to include extensive genealogies at the beginning and end,
suggests that there was some effort to fit the saga into more classical
generic conventions and into the political structure of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. Perhaps others were satisfied to see it as a simple,
happy story about a talented guy. But for residents of the area, the saga was
certainly inviting them to draw on their knowledge of landscape and place
while listening to the saga. If they were interested in playing that game,
the saga would reward them with the pleasure of remembering who they
were and where they belonged.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
M A N U S C R I P T S
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
AM 471 4to
AM 486 4to
aM 551 d β 4to
aM 564 a 4to (Pseudo-Vatnshyrna)
P R I M A R Y S O U R C E S
Brot af Þórðar sögu hreða. In Kjalnesinga saga. Ed. Jóhannes Halldórsson, 227–50.
Íslenzk fornrit, vol. 14. reykjavík: Híð íslenzka fornritafélag, 1959.
Kristni saga. In Biskupa sögur I. Ed. Jónas Kristjánsson. íslenzk fornrit, vol. 15.
reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 2003.
Sturlunga saga í 3 bindi. Ed. Guðni Jónsson. reykjavík: Haukadalsútgáfan, 1953.
Þórðar saga hreðu. In Kjalnesinga saga. Ed. Jóhannes Halldórsson, 161–26. Íslenzk
fornrit, vol. 14. reykjavík: Híð íslenzka fornritafélag, 1959.
S E C O N D A R Y S O U R C E S
adolf friðriksson. “Haugar og heiðni: minjar um íslenskt járnaldarsamfélag.” In
Hlutavelta tímans: menningararfur á Þjóðminjasafni, edited by Árni Björnsson
and Hrefna róbertsdóttir, 56–63. reykjavík: Þjóðminjasafn Íslands, 2004.
anderson, Elizabeth, avril Maddrell, Kate McLoughlin, and alana Vincent, eds.,
Memory, Mourning, Landscape. amsterdam: rodopi, 2010.
Andersson, Theodore M. The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180–1280).
Ithaca and London: Cornell university Press, 2006.
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