The Medieval Saga /
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 the settlement of Iceland--the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Open Composition
- 2. Stranding
- 3. Simultaneity
- 4. Toward the Classical Saga
- Editions Consulted
- Index