`Stepmother Sagas.'.
Focuses on the narrative and rhetorical parallels between the 10th century Irish tale, the `Fingal Ronain' (FR) and the Icelandic 15th century tale, the `Hjalmpers ok Olvers' (HS). Debates on the Irish influence upon medieval Icelandic literature; Parallelism found in the analogous employment of a s...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Studies Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 1 - 49 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Spring2000
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| Sumario: | Focuses on the narrative and rhetorical parallels between the 10th century Irish tale, the `Fingal Ronain' (FR) and the Icelandic 15th century tale, the `Hjalmpers ok Olvers' (HS). Debates on the Irish influence upon medieval Icelandic literature; Parallelism found in the analogous employment of a story-type known as the `lustful stepmother' pattern; Literary assessment of both FR and HS. |
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