Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and PowerUniversity of California Press, 1988 - 264 oldal The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned. |
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Society, Sagas, and Power Jesse L. Byock. judged the texts in this compilation to be less sophisticated than the family sagas . THE FAMILY SAGAS The family sagas are called in modern Icelandic Íslendinga- sögur , " the sagas of the ...
Society, Sagas, and Power Jesse L. Byock. judged the texts in this compilation to be less sophisticated than the family sagas . THE FAMILY SAGAS The family sagas are called in modern Icelandic Íslendinga- sögur , " the sagas of the ...
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... family sagas are extant . These texts vary markedly in length ; some , like Hrafnkels saga , are ap- proximately twenty pages in modern volumes ; a few , such as Njáls saga ... saga writing are fragments ; The Family and Sturlunga Sagas 37.
... family sagas are extant . These texts vary markedly in length ; some , like Hrafnkels saga , are ap- proximately twenty pages in modern volumes ; a few , such as Njáls saga ... saga writing are fragments ; The Family and Sturlunga Sagas 37.
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... sagas , give no information as to when the earliest versions of the texts were composed ; thus dating the sagas has always been a difficult task , and scholarly conclusions are open to question . Decisions on the age of the family sagas ...
... sagas , give no information as to when the earliest versions of the texts were composed ; thus dating the sagas has always been a difficult task , and scholarly conclusions are open to question . Decisions on the age of the family sagas ...
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