The Laxdœla Saga : Its Structural Patterns
Arent Madelung, A. Margaret
The Laxdœla Saga : Its Structural Patterns - Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 1972 - 1 electronic resource (280 p.)
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This study is an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her translation of the "Laxdœla Saga", in this volume Madelung uses her deep knowledge of the text to demonstrate the literary quality and aesthetic structure of the work, especially the function of repetition. She shows that the Saga contains a historical-political analogy between the period in which the story is set (the eleventh century) and the saga-author’s own time two centuries later. The apparently straightforward prose is camouflage, and the symbolism provides the key to the hidden analogy.
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English
9781469657851_Madelung
10.5149/9781469657851_Madelung doi
Literature: history & criticism
German Studies Literature
The Laxdœla Saga : Its Structural Patterns - Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 1972 - 1 electronic resource (280 p.)
Open Access
This study is an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her translation of the "Laxdœla Saga", in this volume Madelung uses her deep knowledge of the text to demonstrate the literary quality and aesthetic structure of the work, especially the function of repetition. She shows that the Saga contains a historical-political analogy between the period in which the story is set (the eleventh century) and the saga-author’s own time two centuries later. The apparently straightforward prose is camouflage, and the symbolism provides the key to the hidden analogy.
Creative Commons
English
9781469657851_Madelung
10.5149/9781469657851_Madelung doi
Literature: history & criticism
German Studies Literature