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Der Ring Andvaranaut und sein Fluch

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Abstract

After a detailed inspection of the three Icelandic sources of the Andvari legend (Snorra Edda, the ‘elder’ Edda, Völsunga saga) I proceed to a study of three Sagas of Icelanders (Gísla saga, Grettis saga, Laxdoela saga) in order to explore the idea of “curse” in the Iceland of the thirteenth century. I discovered that of the three sources of the Nibelung legend in Iceland, only one of them (Snorra Edda) limits the curse to the ring, although the demi-god Loki expands the curse to all of the gold. None of the three sources speak of the curse after it is spoken by Andvari (and repeated by Loki). Several of the sources mention the ring, but none repeats, or even mentions the curse. There are curses in the Sagas of Icelanders. But none of them is called a curse, although their practitioners are called magicians, and the business of cursing seems to be associated with the pagan past. Curses seem to play a larger role in the nineteenth century picture of the Middle Ages than in the actuality of the period.

Abstract

After a detailed inspection of the three Icelandic sources of the Andvari legend (Snorra Edda, the ‘elder’ Edda, Völsunga saga) I proceed to a study of three Sagas of Icelanders (Gísla saga, Grettis saga, Laxdoela saga) in order to explore the idea of “curse” in the Iceland of the thirteenth century. I discovered that of the three sources of the Nibelung legend in Iceland, only one of them (Snorra Edda) limits the curse to the ring, although the demi-god Loki expands the curse to all of the gold. None of the three sources speak of the curse after it is spoken by Andvari (and repeated by Loki). Several of the sources mention the ring, but none repeats, or even mentions the curse. There are curses in the Sagas of Icelanders. But none of them is called a curse, although their practitioners are called magicians, and the business of cursing seems to be associated with the pagan past. Curses seem to play a larger role in the nineteenth century picture of the Middle Ages than in the actuality of the period.

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