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- Title
The Old Norse Kings' Sagas and European Latin Historiography.
- Authors
Bagge, Sverre
- Abstract
The article discusses distinctions from European historiography of the sagas comprising the vernacular literatures Scandinavian and Icelandic culture. Topics included are the comparison by scholar W. P. Ker to Latin contemporary literature of sagas cited by the Norwegian Historical School, the rejection of the link to oral tradition by Lauritz Weibull, and the attribution of the story of Óláfr Tryggvason to Biblical sources.
- Subjects
SAGAS; EUROPEAN historiography; SCANDINAVIAN literature; ICELANDIC literature; KER, W. P.; WEIBULL, Lauritz
- Publication
Journal of English & Germanic Philology, 2016, Vol 115, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0363-6941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/jenglgermphil.115.1.0001