The importance and meaning of sagas in the ideas of the Estonian Germanist Rein Sepp

• Main Author: Kulmar, Tarmo
• Other Authors: Skandinavistik / Universität Tübingen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Tübingen 2004
• Subjects: Saga; Island; 839; Rein Sepp; Saemundra-Edda; interpretation of saga; Beowulf; Iceland; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/46217; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-10791

Rein Sepp, the great Germanist of the 20th century Estonia, was born on April 23, 1921. His studies at the University of Tartu were interrupted by World War II, in which he participated in the ranks of the Nazi German army. After a Soviet prison camp in Siberia he committed himself to translating va...