Legendary sagas as historical sources
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...
Published in: | Tabularia |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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CRAHAM - Centre Michel de Boüard
2016
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4000/tabularia.2203 http://journals.openedition.org/tabularia/2203 |