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



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Autore: Ghosh Shami Visualizza persona
Titolo: Kings' sagas and Norwegian history [[electronic resource] ] : problems and perspectives / / by Shami Ghosh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
Disciplina: 948.1/01072
Soggetto topico: Sagas - History and criticism
Old Norse literature - History and criticism
Kings and rulers in literature
Literature and history - Norway
Soggetto geografico: Norway Historiography
Norway History To 1030 Sources
Norway History 1030-1397 Sources
Norway Kings and rulers
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Kings' sagas and Norwegian history  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-28078-7
9786613280787
90-04-21047-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807441303321
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Serie: Northern world ; ; v. 54.