essay
Inheritance, ideology, and literature: HERVARAR SAGA OK HEIðREKS
From sagas to society : comparative approaches to early Iceland • Enfield Lock, Middlesex, Uk • Published In 1992 • Pages: 147-160
By: Tulinius, Torfi H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The aim of this article is to present a detailed analysis of the Icelandic saga 'Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks' and to show how a close scrutiny of it can bring to light its relationship to historical changes taking place in Iceland at the time of its composition (i.e., in the thirteenth century). The author's major objective in this work is to show '…that a literary artifact, even a highly fictional narrative such as this 'fornaldarsaga', can provide valuable information about thirteenth-century Iceland and to demonstrate that, with the appropiate methodological tools, a representative of this category of saga literature can be shown to be just as good a source of knowledge about the period of composition as the family sagas, sagas of contemporaries and even historical chronicles' (p. 148).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Inheritance
- Verbal arts
- Classes
- Legal norms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Icelanders
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Scandinavia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ninth-thirteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- general Iceland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Torfi H. Tulinius
- For bibliographical references see document 10: [Gísli Pálsson]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93150093
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Icelanders