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2022
First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern
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First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern
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The Eddas and Sagas of Iceland
2020The eddas and sagas are literary works written in Iceland in the 13th and 14th centuries but incorporating memories preserved orally from preliterate times of (a) Norse myths, in prose and verse form, (b) heroic lays with common Germanic roots, (c) raiding and trading voyages of the Viking Age (800–1030 CE), and (d) the settlement of Iceland from ...
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The Enigma of the Icelandic Saga
Diogenes, 1964The people of Iceland enriched the literature of the Middle Ages with a genre of epic prose that is found nowhere else in Europe. It takes the form of narratives depicting people and events belonging to a period of about one century, which begins in 930 and extends up to 1030.
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UKRAINIAN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF ICELANDIC SAGAS
Ukraine Cultural Heritage National Identity StatehoodIn this paper, we attempted to review the key works of Ukrainian researchers in the field of saga studies in the 21st century. We outlined the preconditions for the formation of saga studies in Ukraine and identified key trends, directions, and prospects for developing this field in Ukrainian historiography.
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An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders
2020An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides new perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre: the Sagas of Icelanders (also known in English as Family Sagas). The book deepens our understanding both of the Old Norse-Icelandic texts and of our responses to them by attending to the ways in which the texts work as narratives
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Size Matters: Penile Problems in Sagas of Icelanders
Exemplaria, 2007This article explores the relationship between men's genitals and men's identities in medieval Iceland by analysing accounts of penile problems (impotence, a penis that is surprisingly small, and one that becomes too large) in Egils saga, Grettis saga, and Njals saga.
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Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders
2018This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the sagas of Icelanders—and so taking into account a number of little-studied sagas as well as the more well-known works—it comprehensively interrogates the construction, operation, and problematization of masculinities in this genre ...
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CLUMSY SAGAS: REPETITIONS AND LOOSE STRUCTURE IN THE “SAGAS OF ICELANDERS”
RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, 2021openaire +1 more source