Representations of English history in Icelandinc Kings'saga: Haraldssaga hardrada and knytlinga saga
Cataloged from PDF version of article. The Icelandic sagas are one of the most important historical sources for Viking studies. Although there are many different types of saga, only the kings‟ sagas and family sagas are generally considered historically accurate to some extent. Unfortunately, becaus...
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ftbilkentuniv:oai:repository.bilkent.edu.tr:11693/30033 2023-05-15T16:50:28+02:00 Representations of English history in Icelandinc Kings'saga: Haraldssaga hardrada and knytlinga saga İngiliz tarihi'nin İzlanda kral sagalarında temsili : Haraldssaga Hardada ve Knytlingasaga Gülen, Deniz Cem Thornton, David 2015 [4], 101 leaves application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11693/30033 English eng Bilkent University http://hdl.handle.net/11693/30033 B151087 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Vikings England Saga Cnut the Great Harald Hardrada Knýtlinga saga Heimskringla. Heimskringla B151087 Thesis 2015 ftbilkentuniv 2022-11-24T18:04:59Z Cataloged from PDF version of article. The Icelandic sagas are one of the most important historical sources for Viking studies. Although there are many different types of saga, only the kings‟ sagas and family sagas are generally considered historically accurate to some extent. Unfortunately, because they were composed centuries after the Viking age, even these sagas contain a number of historical inaccuracies. In this research, I will try to discuss this problem by focusing on the Heimskringla version of King Harald‟s saga and the Knýtlinga saga, and how English history is represented in them. After discussing the nature of the sagas and the problems of the Icelandic sources, I will consider the saga accounts of certain events that occurred in England during the reigns of Harald Hardrada and Cnut the Great. In order to show the possible mistakes in these sagas, primary sources from outside of Scandinavia and Iceland, notably the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, as well as modern studies, will be used to assess these possible errors in the Heimskringla and Knýtlinga saga. Gülen, Deniz Cem M.A. Thesis Iceland Bilkent University: Institutional Repository |
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Cataloged from PDF version of article. The Icelandic sagas are one of the most important historical sources for Viking studies. Although there are many different types of saga, only the kings‟ sagas and family sagas are generally considered historically accurate to some extent. Unfortunately, because they were composed centuries after the Viking age, even these sagas contain a number of historical inaccuracies. In this research, I will try to discuss this problem by focusing on the Heimskringla version of King Harald‟s saga and the Knýtlinga saga, and how English history is represented in them. After discussing the nature of the sagas and the problems of the Icelandic sources, I will consider the saga accounts of certain events that occurred in England during the reigns of Harald Hardrada and Cnut the Great. In order to show the possible mistakes in these sagas, primary sources from outside of Scandinavia and Iceland, notably the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, as well as modern studies, will be used to assess these possible errors in the Heimskringla and Knýtlinga saga. Gülen, Deniz Cem M.A. |
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Representations of English history in Icelandinc Kings'saga: Haraldssaga hardrada and knytlinga saga |
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Representations of English history in Icelandinc Kings'saga: Haraldssaga hardrada and knytlinga saga |
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Representations of English history in Icelandinc Kings'saga: Haraldssaga hardrada and knytlinga saga |
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