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Laxdœla saga and Grettis saga. His designs on Hjarðarholt and the care-
fully expressed description of his farm, church and bridge, indicate that
Þorsteinn once received more consideration from wider tradition than the
written texts preserve. a degree of imagination certainly went into the use
of these details – particularly in Grettis saga, where Snorri goði’s motives
are made more oblique than ever – but it built on a consistent, recognis-
able tradition.78
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
M A N U S C R I P T S
Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn, Reykjavík
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Jónsson. Íslenzk fornrit. Vol. 3, 2nd ed. reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag,
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Jónsson. Íslenzk fornrit. Vol. 6. reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1943.
Grettis saga. Ed. by Guðni Jónsson. Íslenzk fornrit. Vol. 7. reykjavík: Hið íslenzka
fornritafélag, 1936.
Íslendingabók; Landnámabók. Ed. by Jakob Benediktsson. Íslenzk fornrit. Vol. 1,
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The Medieval Annals of Iceland. Ed. by Elizabeth rowe. 2 vols. forthcoming.
78 Many thanks to Rebecca Merkelbach for organising the Hungrvaka strands at Leeds IMC
2016 where I presented a preliminary version of this paper. I am especially grateful to those
who engaged with the discussion afterwards. thanks are also due to Gripla’s editorial team
and anonymous reviewers for their advice, and to Edward Carlsson Browne for reading
drafts of this article. finally, especial thanks to Elizabeth rowe for providing me with ac-
cess to her unpublished material on the annals, and to Judith Jesch for making her PhD
thesis freely available – I hope I have not misrepresented her arguments.
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF ÞORSTEINN KUGGASON