Kings' sagas and Norwegian history : problems and perspectives / / by Shami Ghosh.
This book is an examination of some of the principal issues arising from the study of the kings’ sagas, the main narrative sources for Norwegian history before c. 1200. Providing an overview of the past two decades of scholarship, it discusses the vexed relationship between verse and prose and the r...
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| Superior document: | The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, economies and cultures, v. 54 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Northern world ;
v. 54. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Skaldic Verse and Saga Prose: Transmission and Reliability
- 3. Non-Native Sources and Influence
- 4. The Uses of the Past
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Concordance of Cited Passages from the 1932 and 2011 Editions of Morkinskinna
- Index of Modern Scholars Cited
- General Index.