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The Bookish Riddarasogur: Writing Romance in Late Mediaeval Iceland (The Viking Collection)
Emerita Geraldine Barnes
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Description for The Bookish Riddarasogur: Writing Romance in Late Mediaeval Iceland (The Viking Collection)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
This book deals with a fascinating but until recently largely neglected area of late medieval Icelandic literature: the indigenous prose romances, generally known as riddarasoegur (lit. sagas of knights), a group of some 30 sagas composed in Iceland from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century onwards which take place in an exotic (non-Scandinavian), vaguely chivalric milieu and are characterized by the extensive use of foreign motifs and a strong supernatural or fabulous element. The author, Geraldine Barnes, former Professor of English Language and Early English Literature at the University of Sydney, has written extensively on the riddarasoegur throughout her ... Read more
This book deals with a fascinating but until recently largely neglected area of late medieval Icelandic literature: the indigenous prose romances, generally known as riddarasoegur (lit. sagas of knights), a group of some 30 sagas composed in Iceland from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century onwards which take place in an exotic (non-Scandinavian), vaguely chivalric milieu and are characterized by the extensive use of foreign motifs and a strong supernatural or fabulous element. The author, Geraldine Barnes, former Professor of English Language and Early English Literature at the University of Sydney, has written extensively on the riddarasoegur throughout her ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
409g
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Odense, Denmark
ISBN
9788776747916
SKU
V9788776747916
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