Dating the Sagas: Reviews & Revisions - Hardcover

Else Mundal

 
9788763538992: Dating the Sagas: Reviews & Revisions
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8763538997 ISBN 13: 9788763538992
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013

Synopsis

Anonymously written and transcribed from oral tales, the family sagas of Iceland are notoriously difficult texts to date. In this book, a host of contributors address the methodological problems inherent in dating the sagas, and in the process they offer insightful discussions on the saga form itself. Focusing on the several new written genres that developed in Iceland in the thirteenth century, they locate the dynamic position of the sagas at the intersection of oral and written traditions. In doing so, they highlight the crucial problems of philological research and the importance of accuracy in understanding literary history.

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About the Author

Else Mundal is Professor of Old Norse philology at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen and is coeditor of multiple volumes, including Oral Art Forms and their Passage into writing, also published by Museum Tusculanum Press.

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Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8763538997
ISBN 13 
9788763538992
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
250