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Between history and myth : stories of Harald Fairhair and the founding of the state /
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's founda...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure. |
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| Notas: | Available through University Press Scholarship Online (SHEDL). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 285 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226141084 022614108X 022614092X 9780226140926 1306980321 9781306980326 |