[All]: Sigurðr’s torture and death are also described by Saxo (Saxo 2005, II, 29, 3-4, pp. 314-17), and his version corresponds closely to Ív Sig and the surrounding prose. See also Andersson and Gade 2000, 463, ch. 93 n. 1, Bjarni Guðnason 1978, 55-66 and Note to st. 42 [All] above. After Sigurðr’s death, his body was brought to Ålborg in Denmark and interred in the Church of S. Mary (Máríukirkja). Clearly, stories about his life and death (and maybe Sig as well) must have circulated in Denmark and been available to Saxo.
References
- Bibliography
- Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Bjarni Guðnason. 1978. Fyrsta sagan. Studia islandica 37. Reykjavík: Bókaútgáfa menningarsjóðs.
- Saxo 2005 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2005. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum / Danmarkshistorien. Trans. Peter Zeeberg. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Det danske sprog- og litteraturselskab & Gads forlag.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 501-27. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1282> (accessed 25 April 2024)