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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts

Olley, Katherine MarieUniversity of Cambridge2019

The thesis explores the imaginative depiction of parent-child relations in the Poetic Edda, Snorra Edda and the fornaldarsaga corpus, with the aim of illuminating both the role of kinship in shaping Old Norse narrative and the complementary role of narrative in aiding the conceptualisation and …

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