One of the most durable legends of the pagan Germanic world is that of King Hrolfr kraki, an illustrious figure of Danish prehistory. While the story of Hrolfr's life and death had its origins in oral tradition, it was first recorded by Danish and Icelandic historiographers writing in Latin and...

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1. Verfasser:	Bradley, Joanna 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Mikrofilm Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2006
Ausgabe:	[Mikrofilm-Ausg.]
Schlagworte:	Hrólfs saga kraka Scandinavian literature Icelandic literature Germanic literature Folklore Comparative literature Literature, Medieval Hochschulschrift
Zusammenfassung:	One of the most durable legends of the pagan Germanic world is that of King Hrolfr kraki, an illustrious figure of Danish prehistory. While the story of Hrolfr's life and death had its origins in oral tradition, it was first recorded by Danish and Icelandic historiographers writing in Latin and Icelandic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The legend was most fully developed in the anonymous Hrolfs saga kraka, thought to have been composed between the middle of the thirteenth and the middle of the fifteenth centuries in Iceland. The saga, the oldest extant manuscripts of which date from the seventeenth century, is counted among the so-called fornaldarsogur, or mythical-heroic sagas, in the medieval Icelandic literary tradition
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-211)
Beschreibung:	III, 212 S. 29 cm