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Bibliography for: Guðrúnarhvöt

Guðrúnarhvöt, in Sophus Bugge's edition of Sæmundar Edda, https://archive.org/details/norrnfornkviisl00eddagoog , p. 311-15.

Works with this reference:

D2125.1.1.

Magical transportation by waves.

Guðrúnarhvöt in BuggeE 311;
Völs ch. 41 (39)/
cf. Völs 43 (41);
cf. Sturl I 140.

Q416.1.

Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses.

Hamð 3;
Skáldsk ch. 51 (42);
Guðrúnarhvöt 16;
Völs ch. 42 (40) =
Saxo lib. VIII c. X 11 =
Herrm 575 n.;
Þiðr II 164;
Saussaye 135.

Q465.1.

Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment.

cf. S146.
Háttalykill ed. Skj I 489;
Sig III 59/
Oddr 28-29/
Akv 31/
Atlam 59/
Guðrúnarhvöt 17 in BuggeE 257, 280, 289, 301, 314 =
Völs ch. 39 (37)/
Skáldsk ch. 51 (42);
HaraldH in Msk 80;
Skjöld ch. 27 (28);
Krákumal st. 26-27 (FAS I 309-10, Skj I 655);
RagnarL ch. 15 (FAS I 281-82; Skj II 558);
Þiðr II 314;
Sigþ 187 ch. 30;
FlóresS XXI 13-23/
cf. introd. lxxviii;
Bevers 224-26 ch. 11-14;
Saxo lib. IX c. IV 38-39, lib. XI c. III/
cf. Herrm 651.

S63.

Cruel wife.

cf. K2213;
T311.4.
Akv 41/
Atlam 89/
Guðrúnarhvöt in BuggeE 313 =
Völs ch. 40 (38);
Gering I 29.

T211.2.

Wife's suicide at husband's death.

cf. F1041.1.2.2;
P16.4.1;
T81.6.
Guðrúnarhvöt 311/
Atlam 104/
Völs ch. 41 (39), cf. 43 (41);
Bevers 243 ch. 21;
Saxo lib. I c. VIII 4/
cf. Herrm 94.

V61.2.

Dead burned on pyre.

cf. E431.13;
E446.2;
P16.4;
T211.2.
Prologus to Hkr;
Ys ch. 8 ff.;
Helreið/
SgFIII 66-70/
Guðrúnarhvöt 20 in SæmE 258 ff./
Völs ch. 33/
Nornag 69 ch. 8 (FAS I 333, Flb I 355);
RagnarL ch. 18 (19);
Saxo lib. III c. II 11, lib. V c. VIII 1;
cf. Vries 16 ff., 26, 29;
Weinhold 480 ff.