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Over the last few decades, a number of works have appeared which
have increased our knowledge and appreciation of the pre-modern
Icelandic genre of fornaldarsoegur (often translated into English
as legendary sagas, heroic sagas or the sagas of ancient times).
This new work builds upon the preceding research but takes as a
case study a short, late version of the genre. By looking at a
peripheral narrative - one which many would exclude and ignore when
considering the genre - new perspectives on many of the questions,
which researchers put to this genre, can be provided. Illuga saga
Gridarfostra turns out to be a story, which has served many
functions for multiple audiences. By tracing the complete history
of this work, from its origins, through multiple manuscript
witnesses, its use in Scandinavian intellectual history in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and through to the many
poetic reworkings produced in Iceland up to the twentieth century,
a comprehensive picture is produced which allows us to see how a
short story can have a much fuller life than is immediately
apparent if we look at it merely as a brief saga alongside its more
extensive and polished generic siblings.
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