The saint and the saga hero : hagiography and early Icelandic literature /

The relationship between that most popular of medieval genres, the saint's life, and the sagas of the Icelanders is investigated here. Although saga heroes are rarely saints themselves -- indeed rather the reverse -- they interact with saints in a variety of ways: as ancestors or friends of sai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grønlie, Siân Elizabeth, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, [2017]
Colección:Studies in Old Norse literature.
Temas:
Sagas > History and criticism.
Saints in literature.
Sagas > Histoire et critique.
Saints dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
Sagas.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Saints' lives and sagas of Icelanders
  • 2. The failed saint : Oddr Snorrason's Óláfr Tryggvason
  • 3. The confessor, the martyr and the convert
  • 4. The noble heathen and the missionary saint
  • 5. The outlaw, the exile and the desert saint
  • 6. The saint as friend and patron
  • 7. Conclusion.

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