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132 Hollander: Gautrekssaga and Hrólfssaga.
getber absent. In the Hrólfssaga, it is sounded, not only
in the scene laid in Dublin, but in the whole hero ideal of
a knightly king invincible and unfailingly resourceful, sans
peur et sans reproche. It is true that in the Hrólfssaga
the fusion of old time Viking and Ladies’ Knight is ac-
complished so well that the newer element is likely to pass
unnoticed. The reason is clear. In another place *) I have
tried to show that the Hrólfssaga was composed, probably
by a cleric of |>ingvalla cloister, in order to magnify the
family of the Vatsdal. The Gautrekssaga however, stripped
of adventitious matter, shows no such conscious effort.
Ranischs conclusion 2) in the matter was: ”Der Ver-
fasser der Gautrekssaga kannte aus mündlicher oder schrift-
licher Überlieferung den Gautaþáttr und die Refssaga; er
fügte sie mit Benützung der Hrólfssaga zu einer Gautreks-
saga zusammen, die er der Hrólfssaga als eine Art breiterer
Einleitung vorsetzte”. Without unnecessary hairsplitting this
statement amounts to a virtual acknowledgment of the exi-
stence (written or unwritten) of the Gautrekssaga as we have
it, independently of the Hrólfssaga. That the Hrólfssaga,
on the other hand, both from internal and external evidence,
is not based on any substantial tradition, but is one man’s,
work, was established by Detter. Shall we then admit ”dass
die kürzere, ältere Fassung der Gautrekssaga ”verfasst” 3)
wurde als Einleitung zu der kürzeren, älteren Hrólfssaga
— —?” Or not, rather, as I contend, that after the contin-
uation of the G autrekssaga in the Hrólfssaga, later
copyists endeavoured to bring about a closer connection by
inserting certain minor changes?
*) L. c. p. 217.
*) L. c. Lii.
*) Quotation marks are mine.
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