The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason

Arnaldur Indriðason’s Erlendur novels are popular crime fiction stories set in Iceland. Detective Erlendur Sveinsson’s team deals with serious crimes, murders, and missing persons. Their cases are contemporary, but Indriðason has always said that he is influenced as a writer by the medieval Icelandi...

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Main Author: Bydder, Jillene
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: POPCAANZ 2016
Subjects:
Arnaldur Indriðason
Icelandic crime fiction
Icelandic sagas
Detective Erlendur Sveinsson
fate in literature
Iceland
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10831
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spelling ftunivwaikato:oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz:10289/10831 2023-05-15T16:49:19+02:00 The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason Bydder, Jillene Sydney, Australia 2016-12 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10831 en eng POPCAANZ http://popcaanz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FICTION_Bydder-2016_Erlendur.pdf Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) Bydder, J. (2016). The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason. In Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) (pp. 52–60). Wellington, New Zealand: POPCAANZ. 978-0-473-38284-1 https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10831 This article is published in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ). © 2016 Copyright with the author. 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) Arnaldur Indriðason Icelandic crime fiction Icelandic sagas Detective Erlendur Sveinsson fate in literature Conference Contribution 2016 ftunivwaikato 2022-03-29T15:14:43Z Arnaldur Indriðason’s Erlendur novels are popular crime fiction stories set in Iceland. Detective Erlendur Sveinsson’s team deals with serious crimes, murders, and missing persons. Their cases are contemporary, but Indriðason has always said that he is influenced as a writer by the medieval Icelandic sagas. How is this illustrated by his crime fiction? The sagas, like crime fiction, contain stories of murder, revenge, love, loss and family conflicts. The paper uses examples from the novels and the sagas to examine the links between them. These links include the importance of traditional and local stories and the significance of fate. The paper also describes how Erlendur’s character develops over the series until he becomes an archetypical saga hero. Conference Object Iceland The University of Waikato: Research Commons
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topic Arnaldur Indriðason
Icelandic crime fiction
Icelandic sagas
Detective Erlendur Sveinsson
fate in literature
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Icelandic crime fiction
Icelandic sagas
Detective Erlendur Sveinsson
fate in literature
Bydder, Jillene
The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason
topic_facet Arnaldur Indriðason
Icelandic crime fiction
Icelandic sagas
Detective Erlendur Sveinsson
fate in literature
description Arnaldur Indriðason’s Erlendur novels are popular crime fiction stories set in Iceland. Detective Erlendur Sveinsson’s team deals with serious crimes, murders, and missing persons. Their cases are contemporary, but Indriðason has always said that he is influenced as a writer by the medieval Icelandic sagas. How is this illustrated by his crime fiction? The sagas, like crime fiction, contain stories of murder, revenge, love, loss and family conflicts. The paper uses examples from the novels and the sagas to examine the links between them. These links include the importance of traditional and local stories and the significance of fate. The paper also describes how Erlendur’s character develops over the series until he becomes an archetypical saga hero.
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title_full The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason
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Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)
Bydder, J. (2016). The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason. In Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) (pp. 52–60). Wellington, New Zealand: POPCAANZ.
978-0-473-38284-1
https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10831
op_rights This article is published in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ). © 2016 Copyright with the author.
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