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Introductory essays on Egils saga and Njáls saga
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- Creator
- edited by John Hines and Desmond Slay
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Viking Society for Northern Research, 1992
- Physical Details
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- 151 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0903521253, 9780903521253
- OCLC
- ocm30500615
- Papers submitted to the Viking Society Student Conferences held in Cardiff in 1988 and London in 1990 which concentrated on Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar and Brennu-Njáls saga.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Sturlunga saga and the context of saga-writing / Guðrún Nordal -- Kingship in Egils saga / John Hines -- Egils saga and other poets' sagas / Alison Finlay -- Egill's longer poems: Arinbjarnarkviða and Sonatorrek / Carolyne Larrington -- 'Good men' and peace in Njáls saga / Judith Jesch -- Women in Njáls saga / Heather O'Donoghue -- "It seemed to me that the sweetest light of my eyes had been extinguished" / Andrew Hamer -- The Supernatural in Njáls saga : a narratological approach / Rory McTurk -- Vikings and Celts / Peter Robinson -- Egils saga and Njáls saga : bibliographical guides / John Hines
Subjects
- Snorri Sturluson, 1179?-1241. Egils saga -- Congresses.
- Njáls saga -- Congresses.
- Egill Skallagrímson, approximately 910-approximately 990 -- Congresses.
- Njáll Þorgursson, approximately 930-1011 -- Congresses.
- Mythology, Norse, in literature -- Congresses.
- Sagas -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
- Mythology, Norse -- Congresses.