The growth of the medieval icelandic sagas (1180-1280)
- Typus Andere
- Verlag CORNELL
- Schriftsteller Anderson, Theodore M
- ISBN13 9780801444081
- ISBN10 080144408X
- Buchseiten 237
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2006
- Sprache Englisch
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Mittelalterliche Europäische LiteraturThe growth of the medieval icelandic sagas (1180-1280)
The early sagas-including The Legendary Saga of Saint Olaf and Odd Snorrason's Saga of Olaf Tryggvason-focus on conspicuous individuals and their memorable deeds; later works are more apt to formulate the abstract problems and ideas that preoccupied their authors. As the authors begin to impose their views on the inherited narratives, the sagas become more and more critical and self-conscious, to the point where Njáls saga may be considered not only to approximate a novel in our sense of the term but also to comment on the saga form.
Author Bio: Theodore M. Andersson is Professor of Germanic Studies Emeritus at Indiana University. He is the author of several books, including Early Epic Scenery: Homer, Virgil, and the Medieval Legacy and The Legend of Brynhild; translator of The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason; and cotranslator, with Kari Ellen Gade, of "Morkinskinna": The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157), all from Cornell.
"There is no one in the field who combines so well the virtues of elegance, critical acumen, magisterial knowledge, and sheer love of the sagas. It was via Theodore M. Andersson's work that I was introduced to the sagas, and now, forty years later, in this splendid book, it is still Andersson who is teaching me how to read them. The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas has a strong claim to be his finest work and that is praise indeed."-William Ian Miller, University of Michigan "This strikingly original book by Theodore M. Andersson, who knows more about the craft of saga-writing in medieval Iceland than anyone else, crowns four decades of his writings on these extraordinary texts. From the first glittering appearance of sagas at the end of the twelfth century to the autumnal wisdom and bleakness of Nyála a hundred years later, there is much here to surprise and delight."-Roberta Frank, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University
- Typus Andere
- Verlag CORNELL
- Schriftsteller Anderson, Theodore M
- ISBN13 9780801444081
- ISBN10 080144408X
- Buchseiten 237
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2006
- Sprache Englisch