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In this book, Medieval Icelandic society is placed in an anthropological perspective through cross-cultural comparisons and the use of close translation to preserve the rhetorical devices and cultural conventions of its composers. The Icelandic family sagas cover a period of two hundred years starting from the first settlement in the ninth century.
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Saga Of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue, E. Paul Durrenberger, Unknown
- Language
- Released
- 1992
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Saga Of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue
- Subtitle
- With an Essay on the Structure and Translation of the Saga
- Language
- English
- Authors
- E. Paul Durrenberger, Unknown
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 124
- ISBN10
- 0838634656
- ISBN13
- 9780838634653
- Series
- Tags
- Short Stories, USA, Mythology, Middle Ages, Literary Criticism, Lyric, Sagas
- Description
- In this book, Medieval Icelandic society is placed in an anthropological perspective through cross-cultural comparisons and the use of close translation to preserve the rhetorical devices and cultural conventions of its composers. The Icelandic family sagas cover a period of two hundred years starting from the first settlement in the ninth century.