| Description |
1 online resource (x, 285 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Gyða; Chapter 3. Rögnvald the Powerful; Chapter 4. Snorri Sturluson; Chapter 5. Commander Guthorm; Chapter 6. Ragnhild; Chapter 7. Dofri the Giant; Chapter 8. Hálfdan the Black; Chapter 9. Shaggy Harald; Chapter 10. Ingjald the Wicked; Chapter 11. Conclusions; Coda: A Reader Reflects; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Synoptic Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Available through University Press Scholarship Online (SHEDL) |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Harald I, Haarfagre, King of Norway, approximately 860-approximately 940
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| SUBJECT |
Harald I, Haarfagre, King of Norway, approximately 860-approximately 940 fast |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia.
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| SUBJECT |
Norway -- History -- To 1030.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092650
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| Subject |
Norway
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226141084 |
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022614108X |
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022614092X |
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9780226140926 |
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1306980321 |
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9781306980326 |
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