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Popular Romance in Iceland The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítída saga
Biography
Sheryl McDonald Werronen is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen, where she is carrying out research on seventeeth-century Icelandic manuscripts, scribes, and patronage.
"[...] the most detailed and thorough investigation of any Icelandic romance, and perhaps of any Icelandic saga, published to date. [The author] meticulously covers almost every facet of the saga and presents a comprehensive picture of its narrative building blocks, its most important intertextual links, the characters and their relationships—particularly the unusually strong emphasis on women, female friendship, and possibly lesbianism—the saga's conception of space and geography, the narrator's voice, and its manuscript preservation." Scandinavian Studies, Vol 89, Number 3, Fall 2017
