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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… the subsequent impact of Christianity on Icelandic society, and made possible the survival of numerous pagan practices and values. Contemporary literary sources, especially the Icelandic Family sagas, not only cover the conversion of Iceland, the ensuing conflicts and tensions between …
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Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur: motivation, provocation and characterisation
… between characterisation and structure in the sagas.By drawing attention to characters that I term narrative triggers, I offer a way of reading the sagas that relies both on the narrative conventions of tradition and on the less predictable, personal interactions between the cast of any given …