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Language: en
Pages: 243
Pages: 243
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 377
Pages: 377
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-17 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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
Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 422
Pages: 422
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 210
Pages: 210
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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