[All]: The description of Ketill is reminiscent of Hávm 50, where the situation of a friendless man is compared to that of a lone tree in a village (þorp), unsheltered by bark or needles. Bǫðmóðr’s question to Ketill asking about his identity resembles the questions Ketill addresses to his opponents Gusi (Ket 3a), the anonymous troll (Ket 13) and Forað (Ket 16). Ketill’s great size is mentioned at the beginning of ch. 1 of the saga (FSGJ 2, 151).
References
- Bibliography
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 13 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 563.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 16 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 566.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 3 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 553.