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oapen-20.500.12657-398242020-06-24T00:46:57Z The Laxdœla Saga Arent Madelung, A. Margaret German Studies Literature bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism 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. 2020-06-23T07:38:42Z 2020-06-23T07:38:42Z 1972 book ONIX_20200623_9781469657851_72 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39824 eng UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781469657851_WEB.pdf https://uncpress.org/book/9781469657844/the-laxdla-saga/ University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469657851_Madelung 10.5149/9781469657851_Madelung 29b4cf74-8c0a-422f-9d27-e862ca722861 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 74 280 Chapel Hill [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] Humanities Open Book Program Humanities Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation open access
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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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