Non-Native Sources for the Scandinavian Kings' Sagas

by Paul A. White

Overview

Traditional scholarship on the kings'sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts. Thus previous scholars have striven to ascertain chronology, dating, and potential literary borrowings between the various native medieval manuscripts without considering the possibility of foreign textual influences on native literary traditions. Non-Native Sources for the Scandinavian Kings' Sagas  prompts scholars to look beyond the borders of medieval Scandinavia in the attempt to account for seemingly inexplicable literary motifs and historical accounts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415972727
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/06/2005
Series:	Studies in Medieval History and Culture , #34
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations, Series Editor’s Foreword, Introduction, Chapter One: Background to The Kings’ Sagas, Chapter Two: Ari and the Synoptic Historians’ Use of Foreign Sources, Chapter Three: Foreign Sources in the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason, Chapter Four: Óláfs Saga and the Hagiographic Tradition, Chapter Five: The Period of the Great Compilations Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna, and Heimskringla, Chapter Six: Conclusions, Notes, Bibliography, Index