The Present and the Past in the Sagas of the Icelanders

This chapter examines how the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), which were mostly written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, re�ected their present in a particularly period of the past, the socalled ‘Saga-Age’ which roughly covers the period between the Settlement of Iceland in the lat...

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Main Author: Antonsson, HT
Other Authors: Weiler, B, Lambert, P
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Proceedings of the British Academy 2017
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Online Access:https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1498786/1/Chapter%2002%20-%20Antonsson%20%28002%29.pdf
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1498786/