- Kormáks saga
"Kormáks saga" is one of the
Icelanders' sagas . It tells of the 10th centuryIceland ic poet,Kormákr Ögmundarson , and Steingerðr, the love of his life. The saga preserves a significant amount of poetry attributed to Kormákr, much of it dealing with his love for Steingerðr. Though the saga is believed to have been among the earliest sagas composed it is well preserved. The unknown author clearly relies on oral tradition and seems unwilling to add much of his own or even to fully integrate the different accounts he knew of Kormákr. Often he does little more than briefly set the scenes for Kormákr's stanzas.The following stanzas represent some of Kormákr's love poetry. He tells us of the first time he met Steingerðr. [http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/sounds/brunnu_beggja_kinna.wav Read aloud.]
References
* Einar Ól. Sveinsson (Ed.) (1939). "Íslenzk fornrit VIII - unicode|Vatnsdœla saga". Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag.
* Hollander, Lee M. (Ed.) (1949). "The Sagas of Kormák and The Sworn Brothers". Princeton: Princeton University Press.
* Viðar Hreinsson (Ed.) (1997). "The Complete Sagas of Icelanders - Volume I". Reykjavík: Leifur Eiríksson Publishing. ISBN 9979-9293-1-6.External links
* [http://www.snerpa.is/net/isl/kormaks.htm Full text of the saga in the original language]
* [http://www.sagadb.org/kormaks_saga Full text and translations at the Icelandic Saga Database]
* [http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/korm.html All of Kormákr's poetry in the original language]
* [http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/epics/LifeandDeathofCormactheSkald/Chap1.html An old translation of the saga into English]
* [http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/7kormak.pdf A scholarly article on the first ten stanzas of the saga]
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