Fornaldarsögur, Prosimetrum, and History-Writing in Medieval Iceland
In recent scholarship, the Icelandic fornaldarsögur – legendary, “mythic-heroic” sagas – have typically been regarded as a locus for literary fiction in medieval Iceland, owing in part to their genetic and generic relation to romance literature. This thesis aims to redirect the debate and argues for...
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University of York
2018
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| Online Access: | https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/24017/ |