Anonymous, Sagan af Mjaðveigu Mánadóttur [The Tale of Mjadveig Moon’s Daughter]

Romina Werth (University of Iceland)

Ed. by Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.3.4: Icelandic Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Ármann Jakobsson (University of Iceland), Kjerstin Moody (Gustavus Adolphus College), Sven Hakon Rossel (Universitat Wien), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London)

Dates

First circulation or publication c. 1100

Places

Iceland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story

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The Icelandic wonder tale (

ævintýri

Sagan af Mjaðveigu Mánadóttur

[The Tale of Mjadveig Moon’s Daughter] is an Icelandic variant of the international folktale types ATU 510A

Cinderella

(Uther, 293–95) and ATU 403

The White Bride and the Black Bride

(Uther, 236–38). The tale of Princess Mjaðveig was first printed in the Icelandic collection of legends and folktales,

Íslenzkar þjóðsögur and æfintýri

, which was published by the Icelandic librarian Jón Árnason in two volumes between 1862 and 1864 in Leipzig, Germany (Árnason, 299–305).

Sagan af Mjaðveigu Mánadóttur

belongs to the group of Icelandic stepmother tales (

stjúpmæðra sögur

), narratives about evil stepmothers enchanting their stepchildren. The beautiful but ill-intentioned stepmother is usually an…

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Citation: Werth, Romina. "Sagan af Mjaðveigu Mánadóttur". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 October 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41015, accessed 04 May 2024.]

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