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The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas (1200-1250) is a study of the genesis of Old Icelandic prose literature from its roots in oral tradition to the compilation of key early sagas at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Theodore M. Andersson devotes special attention to the Icelandic sagas (kings' sagas or konungasogur) that narrate the careers of Norwegian kings, Olafr Tryggvason and Olafr Haraldsson prominent among them. The author considers the ""self-consciously Icelandic filter"" that balances Icelanders' perception of Norwegian kings and Icelandic protagonists. He also treats the volatile balance of power between the monarch and the jarls of Norway that permeates the narrative of a now-lost *Hladajarla saga, whose traces are evident in the major compilations Morkinskinna and Fagrskinna. Five of the book's chapters are revisions of previously published papers. The final two chapters carry the discussion of textual interrelationships in the kings' sagas to somewhat later Icelandic native sagas (Islendingasogur) originating in the north and the west of the country.

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Author:   Theodore M. Andersson
Publisher:   Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts Collections
Imprint:   Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts Collections
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780935995145

ISBN 10:   0935995145
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   28 August 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas presents a clear and well-informed argument about stages in the literary history of the Icelandic sagas. It is an important and positive feature that Kings' Sagas and Sagas of Icelanders are not kept apart. -Vesteinn Olason,Journal of English and Germanic Philology(July 2014)

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Theodore M. Andersson is Professor of Germanic Studies Emeritus at Indiana University. He is the author of several books, including The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130-1265),The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas (1200-1250), Early Epic Scenery: Homer, Virgil, and the Medieval Legacy and The Legend of Brynhild; translator of The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason; and cotranslator, with Kari Ellen Gade, of ""Morkinskinna"": The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157), all from Cornell.

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