Genesis of a Saga Narrative Verse and Prose in Kormaks Saga

Name: Genesis of a Saga Narrative Verse and Prose in Kormaks Saga
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ISBN: 9780198117834

ISBN-10: 0198117833

ISBN-13: 9780198117834

Edition: 1991

Authors: Heather O'Donoghue

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The origins of many of the Icelandic sagas have long been the subject of critical speculation and controversy. This book demonstrates that an investigation of the relationship between verse and prose in saga narrative can be used to reconstruct how Icelandic sagas were composed; to this end it provides a detailed analysis of Kormaks saga, whose hero Kormakr is one of the most celebrated of Icelandic poets. Over sixty of his passionate, cryptic skaldic stanzas are quoted in the saga, and the way they and the saga prose are fitted together reveals that Kormaks saga, far from being a seamless narrative of either pre-Christian oral tradition or later medieval fiction, is in fact a patchwork of…

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/30/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English