188 Pages
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Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Traditional scholarship on the kings' sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts. Thus previous scholars have striven to ascertain chronology, dating, and potential literary borrowings between the various native medieval manuscripts without considering the possibility of foreign textual... Read more
List of Abbreviations, Series Editor’s Foreword, Introduction, Chapter One: Background to The Kings’ Sagas, Chapter Two: Ari and the Synoptic Historians’ Use of Foreign Sources, Chapter Three: Foreign Sources in the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason, Chapter Four: Óláfs Saga and the Hagiographic Tradition, Chapter Five: The Period of the Great Compilations Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna, and Heimskringla, Chapter Six: Conclusions, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Paul A. White
