Learning to Feel in the Old Norse Camelot?

The article explores how the Norse translator of the French poet Chrétien de Troyes' "Parcevals saga" depicts both basic and complex emotions by focusing on some major emotional episodes in the saga. Topics discussed include an examination of the language of feeling in the two thirteenth-century "St...

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Published in:Scandinavian Studies Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 74 - 95
Main Author: Larrington, Carolyne
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: University of Wisconsin Press Spring2015
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