Anonymous: Hrólfs saga kraka [The saga of King Hrólf Kraki]

• Main Author: Phelpstead, Carl Luke
• Other Authors: Clark, Robert, Elliott, Emory, Todd, Janet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Literary Dictionary Company Limited 2003
• Subjects: PR English literature; Beowulf; Iceland
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85423/; http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13133

Hrólfs saga kraka, the Saga of King Hrólf kraki, is a colourful and dramatic prose account of legendary events in and around Denmark that was composed in Iceland in the later Middle Ages. Characters and plot elements are shared with a number of other texts that survive from medieval Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England, including Beowulf and Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum (Hrólfr kraki himself, for example, corresponds to Hroþulf in Beowulf and Roluo Krake in Saxo, and there are intriguing similarities between Beowulf and Böðvarr Bjarki, one of Hrólfr's champions in the saga).