Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History : Problems and Perspectives.

Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History : Problems and Perspectives.

Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Shami
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.
Series:Northern world ; v. 54.
Subjects:
To 1397
Sagas > History and criticism.
Old Norse literature > History and criticism.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Literature and history > Norway.
HISTORY > Europe > Scandinavia.
Literature.
Kings and rulers in literature
Literature and history
Old Norse literature
Sagas
Sagor > historia.
Fornnorsk litteratur > historia > före 1500.
Kungar och härskare i litteraturen.
Norway > History > To 1030 > Sources.
Norway > History > 1030-1397 > Sources.
Norway
Norge > historia > före 1500.
Norge > historiografi.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Skaldic Verse and Saga Prose: Transmission and Reliability; Chapter Three Non-Native Sources and Influence; Chapter Four 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.

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