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This article examines folkloric motifs and motif clusters in medieval Icelandic literature with a special focus on  Ragnars saga loðbrókar  (The Saga of Ragnarr Shaggy Breeches), composed in the thirteenth century. While  Ragnars saga  has previously been mentioned in connection with the fairy tale ‘Cinderella’, this article provides an in-depth study of the saga’s fairy-tale characteristics, which may further illuminate the literary link between  Ragnars saga  and the Old Icelandic  Völsunga saga  (The Saga of the Völsungs). However, while ‘Cinderella’ variants from the modern fairy-tale tradition are comprehensible and single-stranded narratives, the Cinderella paradigm in  Ragnars saga  proves to be adapted for a many-stranded, complicated, interlaced literary saga text.

The Serpent and the Crow: Reassessing Fairy-Tale Motifs in the Old Icelandic Ragnars saga loðbrókar