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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… of the comic mode to the reception of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England. For a period characterised by a singular fascination with exemplarity, the Trojan myth offered an important depiction of men’s pursuit of distinction, providing both the exempla of male virtue and the …
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The Trojans of the North - The Trojan matter and the End of the Icelandic Commonwealth
The thesis focuses on the reception of the Trojan matter in medieval Iceland. This was a popular theme in Icelandic literature in the period known as the Sturlungaöld (‘the age of the Sturlungar’), which ended with Iceland becoming subject to Norwegian dominion in 1264, and beyond. The Icelandic …