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Old Icelandic Literature and Society

Old Icelandic Literature and Society

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 42

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521110254
ISBN13: 9780521110259
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 30 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.

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