The Music of What Happens: Narrative Terminology and the Norse-Icelandic Saga

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Abstract

This 'minigraph' places the several-hundred-strong mediaeval Gaelic and Norse-Icelandic saga corpuses alongside each other in order to initiate an exploration of what it is that makes them describable under the same literary term, 'saga'. It analyses how mediaeval scribes conceptualized these narratives in the extant manuscripts and sets this against a detailed study of the wider semantic ranges of the Gaelic term 'scél' and the Norse term 'saga' by which they were referred to, in order to see how these narratives were conceptualized.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherDepartment of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
Number of pages84
ISBN (Print)9781909106338
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Publication series

NameE.C. Quiggin Memorial Lectures
PublisherUniversity of Cambridge
Volume23

Bibliographical note

This work is relevant to both Gaelic and History (Scandinavian Studies).

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