Poetic Justice: Law and Elegy in Egil Skalla-Grimsson'sSonatorrek
Bjarne Markussen
This article has a double purpose, the first being to provide new interpretation of most well-known and debated poem in Old Norse literature, Egil Skalla-Grimsson's elegy Sonatorrek (A Hard Loss Sons), which, according Egil's Saga, was composed after had lost his beloved son, Bodvar, drowning accident around 960 AD. I would argue that is structured as an indictment by which blames gods for loss then weighs up possibility granted revenge compensation. The second purpose use order expansion concept “law literature.” does not concern law such, but rather existential crisis; nonetheless, thinks along legal lines when coming terms with loss. He utilizes elegiac metaphor – death thief interpreting this trying derive some meaning from it. Legal conflicts are thus primarily used here figure thought.
Law and Literature