Inside Outlawry in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar and Gísla saga Sússonar.
The article presents criticism of "Grettis saga Ásmunsarsonar" and Gísla saga Súrssonar," two medieval Icelandic oral and written folktales known as the outlaw sagas. The use of landscape in each of the two sagas is considered, particularly as descriptions of landscapes are used to indicate the prot...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Studies Vol. 82; no. 4; pp. 365 - 389 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Winter2010
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| Sumario: | The article presents criticism of "Grettis saga Ásmunsarsonar" and Gísla saga Súrssonar," two medieval Icelandic oral and written folktales known as the outlaw sagas. The use of landscape in each of the two sagas is considered, particularly as descriptions of landscapes are used to indicate the protagonists' increasing isolation from human society. |
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