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The Laxdoela Saga: Its Structural Patterns

The Laxdoela Saga: Its Structural Patterns

Madelung, A. Margaret Arent

Paperback

Series: University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a, Book 74

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1469657848
ISBN13: 9781469657844
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 1 2020
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 Laxdoela 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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