Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Contemporary Sagas

Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Contemporary SagasThe objective of this book is to analyse the Old Icelandic sagas dealing with the twelfth to fourteenth centuries the secular contemporary sagas and the bishops sagas from the perspective of cultural memory studies. This approach foregrounds their function as sources of the late medieval Icelanders collective identity, shaped by the narrative tradition and the current concerns. It is argued here that the intertextual relations between the Old

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