Medieval Scandinavian Motif Database

Bibliography for: Gróg

Grógaldr, in Sophus Bugge's edition of Sæmundar Edda, https://archive.org/details/norrnfornkviisl00eddagoog , p. 338-42.

Works with this reference:

D931.0.2.

Stones fixed in the earth have certain magic powers.

Gróg 15;
ÖOdd 136 (FAS II 256);
Saxo lib. I c. II 1.

D1275.

Magic song.

cf. D1335.12;
D1349.5;
D1351;
D1355.1.1;
D1358;
D1364.23;
D1380.14;
D1381.27;
D1382.7;
D1384.5;
D1385.20;
D1395.6;
D1410;
D1414.4;
D1500.1.24;
D1503.1;
D1541.0.2;
D1561.1.11;
D1566.2.3;
D1733.6;
D2011.1;
E55.1;
F531.6.11.
Háv 146 ff.;
Gróg;
KetilH 125 ch. 4;
ÞorlJ ch. 4 in FMS III 97-98 =
Herrm 113 n.;
Dehmer 95-96;
MC 299;
Saussaye 241, 387.

D1349.5.

Magic song makes person spiritual and eloquent.

Gróg 14.

D1355.1.1.

Love-producing song.

Háv 161;
ÓláfH ch. 35 in FMS IV 56, V 162;
FlóresS XXII 5/
cf. F420.5.2.1.1.
cf. Gróg 6;
cf. StrömbäckSejd 152.

D1358.

Magic object makes person courageous.

cf. Gróg 9.

D1364.23.

Song causes magic sleep.

cf. K606.1.2.1.
cf. Háv 148;
leysigaldr:
 Gróg 10;
Saxo lib. I c. VI 8 =
Herrm 101.

D1380.14.

Magic poems protect.

cf. D1275.
Háv 148, 156, 158;
Gróg 12, 13.

D1382.7.1.1.

Magic song protects from frost and cold.

Gróg 12 =
MC 298.

D1384.5.

Song as protection on journey.

Gróg 7 (?).

D1385.20.

Magic song protects from revenants, witches.

Háv 155;
from the curse of a dead Christian woman:
 Gróg 13/
 cf. MC 298.

D1410.

Magic object renders person helpless.

cf. Gróg 9;
magic cloth makes girl helpless against lovers:
 Dinus 60-65;
Magic veil renders helpless against lovers:
 Gibbon ch. 2.

D1541.0.2.

Magic song controls storm (and sea).

Háv 154;
Gróg 11.

D1549.3.

Magic object controls river (lake).

cf. D2151.2.
Gróg 8 (7).

D1578.

Magic object keeps off enchantment.

Gróg 7 (?).

D2088.

Locks opened by magic.

cf. D1395.6;
D1550;
D2121.12;
F694;
H251.
Gróg 10;
GullÞ ch. 17;
Bisk I 440, 672, II 15;
ÞorstVík 400 ch. 7.

E323.3.

Dead mother called up from grave to give her son charms.

Gróg =
MC 124.

N110.

Luck and fate personified.

cf. E748.
cf. Gróg 7:
 »Urðar lokur«;
BárðSn 35 ch. 16:
 »Því mun nú hamingjan ráða«.

P231.3.

Mother-love.

cf. F1041.1.3.13.
Gróg;
Þiðr II 225, 228, 252.

S31.

Cruel stepmother.

cf. G205;
M411.1.1;
M431.6;
T154;
T418.
Gróg/
Fjölsv/
cf. Sveinsson 1940 217;
Frá dauða Sinfjötla, in BuggeE 202 =
Völs ch. 10/
Nornag 58 ch. 4 (Flb I 350, FAS I 323);
Ys ch. 14;
HrólfKr 31, 49-59 ch. 11, 18-22 (FAS I ch. 15, 25-30);
GrímL 144 ch. 1-2;
IllGr 657-58 ch. 5;
HjÖlv 469-518 ch. 8-22/
cf. Child no. 34;
Þiðr II 268-69;
SigrgFr 47-48 ch. 2;
JónL in ZDPh XXVI 16-17;
Ector ch. 20; Úlf ch. 1 (= K2111);
Saxo lib. II c. II 1, lib. V c. II 3;
cf. ESveinsson 1929 xv, xvii, xxviii-xxx;
Dehmer 107;
Schlauch 99.