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By Joseph Harris

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E. to Gunnarr) increase, the priestess becomes pregnant, even the weather improves. No symbolic casting off of Freyr’s attire comparable to Ogmundr’s disposal of the hooded capelet is made explicit, but Gunnarr and his party escape secretly by night to King Óláfr and the True Faith, presumably not still clothed as Freyr. Clothes do not make the man, but with Teufelsdröckhian logic they both reveal and conceal character. ”25 A more detailed comparison between the saga and the þáttr will support Jónas Kristjánsson’s general contention.

Ed. G. Wenz (Halle, 1914). 12. Cf. d. [1969]), pp. 3–4. Ogmundar þáttr dytts ok Gunnars helmings 27 kind. At some point an “author” of skill and discernment composed the work as it has come down to us, and a literary critic is obliged to reconsider the þáttr in terms of “unity” and to counteract the divisive emphasis of a received opinion formulated by historians whose point of view was so fi rmly diachronic that they failed to notice the synchronic fact of the integral work of art before them.

Oxford, 1960), pp. XIX–XX. 25. P. LVI. 26. However, cf. ÍF 9: 8, n. 2 on the distribution of the nickname hrúga with its clear reference to events told in Glúma. Ogmundar þáttr dytts ok Gunnars helmings 39 These extraneous facts—whether original or interpolated—can most plausibly be explained as derived from Víga-Glúms saga where Helga, Steingrímr, and Þorvaldr are introduced to the saga twice in very similar words. 27 Most of the placenames associated with the historical characters were well known; but Þverbrekka, Glúmr’s home in old age, is not mentioned in Landnámabók, and again it seems likely that the þáttr drew this information from the saga.

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