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966275
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b720645
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| Main Entry
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O'Donoghue, Heather.
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| Title & Author
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Skaldic verse and the poetics of saga narrative /\ Heather O'Donoghue.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2005.
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255 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0191708305
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: 0199267324
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: 9780191708305
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: 9780199267323
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index.
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| Contents
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1. The role of verses in Norse historical works -- 2. The community and the individual in Eyrbyggja Saga -- 3. Speech, silence, and subjectivity in Gísla Saga -- 4. Grettis Saga and the fictionalization of biography -- Epilogue. Hrafnkels Saga and the hero without verse.
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"Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects. In sagas, there is a fundamental distinction between verses which are ostensibly quoted to corroborate what is stated in the narrative, and verses which are presented as the speech of characters in the saga. Corroborative verses are typical of - but not confined to - historical writings, the verses acting as a footnote to the narrative.
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Dialogue verses, with their illusion that saga characters break into verse at crucial points in the story, belong to the realm of fiction. This study, which focuses on historical writings such as Agrip and Heimskringla, and three of the major family sagas, Eyrbyggja saga, Gisla saga, and Grettis saga, shows that a close reading of the prosimetrum in the narrative can be used to chart the complex and delicate boundaries between history and fiction in the sagas."--Jacket.
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Gemeinnützige Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Altona
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Old Norse poetry-- History and criticism.
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Scalds and scaldic poetry.
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Old Norse poetry.
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Sagas-- Historia y crítica.
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Scalds and scaldic poetry.
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Skaldendichtung
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Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða.
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Saga.
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Sagen.
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Eyrbyggja saga
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Gísla saga Súrssonar
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Grettis saga
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Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða
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| Dewey Classification
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839.61009
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| LC Classification
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PT7154.O52 2005
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18.14bcl
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18.14.bcl
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GW 5830rvk
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GW 6070rvk
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GW 6087rvk
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GW 6091rvk
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NM 1134rvk
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