Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions...

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1. Verfasser:	Ross, Margaret Clunies 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge D.S. Brewer 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Studies in Old Norse literature
Schlagworte:	Sagas / History and criticism Scalds and scaldic poetry / History and criticism Lyrik Íslendinga sögur
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions of the lives, loves and feuds of settler families of the first century and a half of Iceland's commonwealth period (c. AD 970-1030), but this ascription of realism fails to account for one of the most important components of these sagas, the abundance of skaldic poetry, mostly in drṯtkvt̆t 'court metre', which comes to saga heroes' lips at moments of crisis. These presumed voices from the past and their integration into the narrative present of the written sagas are the subject of this book. It investigates what motivated Icelandic writers to develop this particular mode, and what particular literary effects they achieved by it
Beschreibung:	Previously issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xxxviii, 222 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781800106116
DOI:	10.1017/9781800106116