'Everyone thought it very strange how the man had been shaped': The Hero and His Physical Traits in the Riddarasögur

Abstract

The article argues that the depiction of the male hero's physical attributes in three sagas composed at the court of King Hákon Hákonarsson in Bergen— Þiðreks saga, Erex saga , and Tristrams saga —reflect the merging of traditions and cultural expectations that took place in Norway when the Arthurian romances were imported and adapted into Old Norse-Icelandic.

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