Legendary sagas as historical sources

• Published in: Tabularia
• Main Author: Orning, Hans Jacob
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CRAHAM - Centre Michel de Boüard 2016
• Subjects: saga; philologie (Nouvelle); mentalité; manuscrit; Islande tardomédiévale; legendary saga; philology (New); mentality; manuscript; late medieval Iceland; saghe; filologia (Nuova); mentalità; manoscritti; Islanda tardomedievale; hisphilso; hist; Allo; Iceland; Islanda; Islande
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/tabularia.2203; http://journals.openedition.org/tabularia/2203

This article advocates using legendary sagas as historical sources, since these texts in spite of their non-realistic content, can tell historians a lot about the context in which the stories were written, and hence about the conditions that the people listening to them lived under. Using legendary...