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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Gyða; Chapter 3. Rögnvald the Powerful; Chapter 4. Snorri Sturluson; Chapter 5. Commander Guthorm; Chapter 6. Ragnhild; Chapter 7. Dofri the Giant; Chapter 8. Hálfdan the Black; Chapter 9. Shaggy Harald; Chapter 10. Ingjald the Wicked; Chapter 11. Conclusions; Coda: A Reader Reflects; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Synoptic Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index.