The Laxdoela Saga by A Margaret Arent Madelung

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Part of University Of North Carolina Studies In Germanic Languages And Literature series

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Offers an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her translation of the Laxd la Saga, in this volume Madelung uses her deep knowledge of the text to demonstrate the literary quality and aesthetic structure of the work, especially the function of repetition.

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The Laxdoela Saga by A Margaret Arent Madelung

This study is an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her translation of the LaxdŒla Saga, in this volume Madelung uses her deep knowledge of the text to demonstrate the literary quality and aesthetic structure of the work, especially the function of repetition. She shows that the Saga contains a historical-political analogy between the period in which the story is set (the eleventh century) and the saga-author's own time two centuries later. The apparently straightforward prose is camouflage, and the symbolism provides the key to the hidden analogy.

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ISBN 13	9781469657844
ISBN 10	1469657848
Title	The Laxdoela Saga
Author	A Margaret Arent Madelung
Series	University Of North Carolina Studies In Germanic Languages And Literature
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Year published	2020-05-30
Number of pages	280
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