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Author Ghosh, Shami.

Title Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History : Problems and Perspectives.

Publication Info. Leiden : BRILL, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages).
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Series The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, 1569-1462 ; v. 54
Northern world ; v. 54.
Contents Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Skaldic Verse and Saga Prose: Transmission and Reliability; Chapter Three Non-Native Sources and Influence; Chapter Four The Uses of the Past; Chronology; Bibliography; Concordance of Cited Passages from the 1932 and 2011 Editions of Morkinskinna; Index of Modern Scholars Cited; General Index.
Summary Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Subject Sagas -- History and criticism.
Sagas.
Old Norse literature -- History and criticism.
Old Norse literature.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Literature and history -- Norway.
Literature and history.
Norway.
Norway -- History -- To 1030 -- Sources.
History.
Chronological Term To 1030
Subject Norway -- History -- 1030-1397 -- Sources.
Chronological Term 1030-1397
To 1397
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Sources.
Other Form: Print version: Ghosh, Shami. Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History : Problems and Perspectives. Leiden : BRILL, ©2011 9789004209893
ISBN 9789004210479 (electronic book)
9004210474 (electronic book)
1283280787
9781283280785
9789004209893
9004209891
Standard No. 9786613280787