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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781744303321

Autore

Ghosh Shami

Titolo

Kings' sagas and Norwegian history [[electronic resource] ] : problems and perspectives / / by Shami Ghosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-28078-7

9786613280787

90-04-21047-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, economies and cultures, , 1569-1462 ; ; v. 54

Disciplina

948.1/01072

Soggetti

Sagas - History and criticism

Old Norse literature - History and criticism

Kings and rulers in literature

Literature and history - Norway

Norway Historiography

Norway History To 1030 Sources

Norway History 1030-1397 Sources

Norway Kings and rulers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 reliability as historical sources of the verse alone or the combination of verse and prose; the possibility and extent of non-native influence on the composition of these texts; and the function of the past, in particular given that most of the historiography



of Norway was produced in Iceland. This book aims to stimulate studies of medieval Scandinavian historiography with its critical perspective on the texts and the scholarship, while also providing a useful work of reference in order to make this area of research accessible to scholars in cognate fields.