Fire and Iron
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Fire and Iron

Critical Approaches to NjĂĄls saga

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Fire and Iron

Critical Approaches to NjĂĄls saga

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Written in Iceland by an unknown author about 1280, Njals saga has been called the greatest work of vernacular prose fiction from the European Middle Ages. Allen's finely written and perceptive study is one of the first in English to offer a critical examination of the text.

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Year
2010
ISBN
9780822975908

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Problems of Saga Criticism, Origins, ans Genre
  5. 2. Saga Style: Christian Content and Epic Background
  6. 3. Elements in Njals saga: Description, Theory, Application
  7. 4. The Rhetoric of Njals saga
  8. 5. Form and Theme
  9. Selected Abbreviations and Shortened Titles
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index