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The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory: A Study of Late Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts

By Alisa Valpola-Walker
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By Alisa Valpola-Walker
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This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts: AM 589a–f 4to and AM 586 4to. It situates the manuscripts within their literary, media, and historical contexts to read the legendary sagas (or fornaldarsögur) within them as works of historical writing. The qualities about them that are often used to deny them the label of ‘history´ — their proximity to romance and ‘folklore...

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