“Grettis Saga” an Icelandic tale written around…

“Grettis Saga” an Icelandic tale written around 1300, in which the hero succumbs to pagan sorcery, details the life of (the possibly fictional) Grettir Ásmundarson, an Icelandic warrior who became an outlaw.

The saga shares motifs with the Old English poem “Beowulf.” This work is considered one of the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendinga sögur) which are written in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries and are fairly realistic accounts of events taking place between the ninth and the eleventh century in Iceland.

The matter of such texts is usually conflicts for wealth, prestige, and power.