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The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur: Aesthetic and Narrative Effects

The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur: Aesthetic and Narrative Effects

þOrgeirsdóttir, Brynja
Gropper, Stefanie
Quinn, Judy

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3111271803
ISBN13: 9783111271804
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 2 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Verse quotation is intrinsic to the literary style of the medieval Icelandic corpus of Íslendingasögur (sagas of Icelanders), one of the most important vernacular literary genres of the European Middle Ages. The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that the combination of prose and verse constitutes a distinctive literary aesthetic, and that in the medieval Icelandic literary tradition, it was not a question of choosing between prose and verse as the vehicle for stories about the foundational generations of settlers on the island, but of combining both modes to forge the unique literary form of the saga. Verse quotation has always been recognised as an important aspect of the Íslendingasögur, but to date, the significance of verse to the aesthetic of the narrative has mainly been explored with reference to the sub-genre of the skáldasögur (sagas of poets), in which the proportion of verse to prose is at its highest.

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