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By Bernard Scudder, Örnólfur Thorsson
Composed on the finish of the fourteenth century through an unknown writer, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is without doubt one of the final nice Icelandic sagas. With a captivating mixture of pagan beliefs and Christian religion, it relates the story of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior suffering to carry directly to the values of a heroic age as they're eclipsed by means of Christianity and a extra pastoral way of life. not able to settle right into a group of farmers, Grettir turns into the competitive scourge of either sincere males and evil monsters—until, following a conflict with the sinister ghost Glam, he's cursed to suffer a lifetime of tortured loneliness clear of civilization, scuffling with giants, trolls, and berserks.
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* contains genealogical tables, maps, feedback for additional analyzing, and a word at the translation
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S. 15 (1981): 5-42; a critical assessment is offered by A. Dihle, Homer-Probleme (Opladen, 1970); see esp. pp. 19-44 in the latter. 14 Especially illuminating along these lines was the work of J. Th. 16 The Cycle poems and the Iliad offer invaluable mutual perspective on the recombination of elements deriving from a com- 14. A. Severyns, Le cycle épique dans l'école d'Aristarque (Liège, 1928), 313, dates the Aethiopis to the eighth century, but even an appoximate dating for the Cycle cannot be secure.
See G. P. Edwards, The Language of Hesiod in Its Traditional Context (Oxford, 1971); and H. Koller, "Das kitharodische (Footnote continued on next page) Page 13 Because the contents of myth must necessarily be adapted to the restrictions and demands of poetic form, such apparently disparate evidence can shed valuable light on the criteria involved in heroic epic's generic regulation of its content. It may illuminate, moreover, any given epic's idiosyncratic handling of content, beyond the first level of adaptation to the formal conventions of epic, to convey the particular ideas and themes of a particular compositiona process that comparison with epic other than the Iliad also shows us.
E. Rohde, Psyche: Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen, vol. 2, 4th ed. (Freiburg, 1898; Tübingen, 1907), 371, calls Leuke a "Sonderelysion" for Achilles. Rohde offers a discussion of the thematic equivalence of Leuke, Elysion, and the Isles of the Blessed on pp. 365-78. On Elysion as a cult concept, see W. Burkert, "Elysion," Glotta 39 (1961): 208-13; and Th. Hadzisteliou Price, "Hero-Cult and Homer," Historia 22 (1973): 133-34. On the traditional poetic diction of "snatching," or abducting, used (at least by Proclus) to describe Thetis's action here, see note 28 below.