The saint and the saga hero : hagiography and early Icelandic literature /
The relationship between that most popular of medieval genres, the saint's life, and the sagas of the Icelanders is investigated here. Although saga heroes are rarely saints themselves - indeed rather the reverse - they interact with saints in a variety of ways: as ancestors or friends of saint...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [UK] ; Rochester, NY, USA :
D.S. Brewer,
2017
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| Series: | Studies in Old Norse Literature
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