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The Fornaldarsaga in a Dream: Weaving Fantastical Textures in Stjörnu-Odda draumr

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Hui, JYH 

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Stjörnu-Odda draumr (‘Star-Oddi’s dream’) is a relatively little-known Íslendingaþáttr (‘tale of Icelanders’) which dates from the latefourteenth century at the latest but which no longer survives in anymanuscripts predating the seventeenth century.1 It is the only knownNorse text in which a character dreams of being in and participatingin an embedded, custom-written fornaldarsaga (‘saga of an ancienttime’, or legendary saga), making it, in the words of Ralph O’Connor,a ‘literary tour de force and altogether unique in the saga corpus’. 2

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Quaestio Insularis

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17

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Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic

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