The medieval Icelandic saga and oral tradition
Subtitle: a discourse on method
By: Gisli Sigurdsson ; translated by Nicholas Jones.
Series: Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature -- no. 2.
Publisher: Milman Parry Collection; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Center for Hellenic Studies
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Sagas -- History and criticism; Oral tradition -- Iceland; Oral tradition -- Atlantic Coast (North America)
Work titles: Túlkun íslendingasagna í ljósi munnlegrar hefðar.
Description: "The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition: A Discourse on Method offers a new approach to assessing the role of orality in medieval Icelandic society. Sigurdsson explores how our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas must change if they are assumed to have grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling comparable to those described by modern fieldworkers and theorists of oral tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-366) and index.