TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arent Madelung, A. Margaret
AB  - This study is an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her translation of the "Laxdœla Saga", in this volume Madelung uses her deep knowledge of the text to demonstrate the literary quality and aesthetic structure of the work, especially the function of repetition. She shows that the Saga contains a historical-political analogy between the period in which the story is set (the eleventh century) and the saga-author’s own time two centuries later. The apparently straightforward prose is camouflage, and the symbolism provides the key to the hidden analogy.
DO  - 10.5149/9781469657851_Madelung
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200623_9781469657851_72
KW  - German Studies
KW  - Literature
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/89a5057f-c0fc-4bfb-a87e-ad0e7f514c40/9781469657851_WEB.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39824
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
PP  - Chapel Hill
PY  - 1972
TI  - The Laxdœla Saga : Its Structural Patterns
ER  - 
