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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"fornaldarsögur"”.
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"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." A functional analysis of fate in Fornaldarsögur
… This thesis aims to demonstrate that fate in the Fornaldarsögur may as well be a literary device used by the authors to express Christian ideas and moral values in a pagan time. Another aim of this thesis is therefore to challenge the idea of fate in the sagas as only representative of a …
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The finngálkn: A review of literary sources from the 12th century to the 18th century
… skepnum. Lykilorð: finngálkn, Íslendingasögur, fornaldarsögur, riddarasögur, furður, blendingur, íslenskar miðaldabókmennti
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The Matter of Gautland
… to Old Norse saga literature, particularly the fornaldarsögur, within which the ‘Matter of Hrafnista’ and the ‘Matter of Gautland’ have been identified as prominent examples. The latter cycle consists of Gautreks saga, Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar and Bósa saga ok Herrauðs, all of whose heroes are …
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Þá varð hlátr mikill: On the role of laughter in Old Norse saga literature
… in *Íslendingasögur*, *Íslendingaþættir*, and *fornaldarsögur* — both in terms of its literary function as well as means to convey moral and social conventions to a contemporary audience — takes centre stage in this dissertation. Together, these three corpora contain forty-nine sagas that depict …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… by examining impaired and vulnerable bodies in *fornaldarsögur* that are supplemented by nonhuman matter, focusing on (more-than-)human embodiment in *Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana* (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 addresses human and divine perceptions of matter in mythological narrative …
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The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory: A Study of AM 589a–f 4to and AM 586 4to
This thesis examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past in the Icelandic manuscripts AM 589a–f 4to and, to a lesser extent, AM 586 4to, both of which were produced by the same two scribes in the late fifteenth century. I begin in §1 by outlining the …