Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders by Margaret Clunies Ross (Hardback Book)

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First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.\nSagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions of the lives, loves and feuds of settler families of the first century and a half of Iceland's commonwealth period (c. AD 970-1030), but this ascription of realism fails to account for one of the most important components of these sagas, the abundance of skaldic poetry, mostly in dr\u00F3ttkv\u00E6tt \""court metre\"", which comes to saga heroes' lips at moments of crisis.\nThese\n\nPoetry in Sagas of Icelanders\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price;