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..
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Scandinavia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Educator
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- ninth-thirteenth centuries
- Coverage Place
- general Iceland
- Notes
- Torfi H. Tulinius
- For bibliographical references see document 10: [Gísli Pálsson]
- LCCN
- 93150093
- LCSH
- Icelanders