CRITICISM

Arent, A. Margaret. “The Heroic Pattern: Old Germanic Helmets, Beowulf, and Grettis Saga.” In Old Norse Literature and Mythology: A Symposium, edited by Edgar C. Polomé, pp. 130-99. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969.

Cautions against drawing quick conclusions from similarities between the Grettis Saga and Beowulf.

Cook, Robert.”The Reader in Grettis Saga.” Saga-Book 21, Nos. 3-4 (1984): 133-54.

Offers modern reader-response interpretations of assorted episodes in the Grettis Saga.

Hume, Kathryn. “The Thematic Design of Grettis Saga.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 73 (1974): 469-86.

Proposes that the theme of the Grettis Saga, namely that the traditional hero has no place in modern society, came to the author first, and that the plot of the saga followed and conformed to this theme.

Wachsler, Arthur A. “Grettir's Fight with a Bear: Another Neglected Analogue of Beowulf in the Grettis Sage Asmundarsonar.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 66, No. 5 (October 1985): 381-90.

Examines similarities between the bear episodes in the Grettis Saga and Beowulf.