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The Medieval Saga
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Carol J. Clover
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after t
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Ármann Jakobsson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-17 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in oth
The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Theodore Murdock Andersson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Andersson introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1280, a crucial period that witnessed a gradual shift of emphasis from t
The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Gísli Sigurðsson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Margaret Clunies Ross
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outli