Scandinavian Studies, January 1st, 1996
This volume, consisting of thirteen independently authored essays, takes as its governing theme "the post-medieval rediscovery and reception of Edda and saga in the lands bordering and the islands surrounded by the North Atlantic" (viii). Seven of the papers were first delivered in 1991 at the International Saga Conference in Gothenburg and include: Regis Boyer, "Vikings, Sagas and Wasa Bread" (69-81); Jurg Glauser, "The End of the Saga: Text, Tradition and Transmission in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Iceland" (101-41); Jan Ragnar Hagland, "The Reception of Old Norse Literature in...
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