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Author Ghosh, Shami

Title Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History : Problems and Perspectives
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Series The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, 1569-1462 ; v. 54
Northern world ; v. 54.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject 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.
SUBJECT Norway -- History -- To 1030 -- Sources
Norway -- History -- 1030-1397 -- Sources
Subject Norway
Norge -- historia -- före 1500.
Norge -- historiografi.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011029158
ISBN 9789004210479
9004210474
1283280787
9781283280785
9789004209893
9004209891
9786613280787
661328078X