Popular romance in Iceland : the women, worldviews, and manuscript witnesses of Nítíða saga / Sheryl McDonald Werronen.

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McDonald Werronen, Sheryl [author,, translator.]

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TextLanguage: English, Icelandic Original language: Icelandic Series: Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; 5.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016Distributor: [Chicago] : Distributed in the US and Canada by University of Chicago Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789048526154
9048526159

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839/.63 23

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PT7193

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Manuscript Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Romance Contexts -- 1. Manuscript Witnesses -- 2. Intertextuality -- 3. Setting the Scene -- Part II. Romance Characters -- 4. The Hero and her Rivals -- 5. Women Helping Women, and Other Minor Characters -- 6. Romance through the Eyes of the Narrator -- Conclusion -- Appendix Nítíða saga Text and Translation -- Index

Summary: A late medieval Icelandic romance about the maiden-king of France, the Nítíða saga was well received in its day and grew in popularity throughout post-Reformation Iceland. It has not, however, received the comprehensive scholarly analysis it deserves, or that other Icelandic sagas have received. Sheryl McDonald Werronen corrects that here, offering a detailed study of the saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions of identity, gender, female solidarity, and the romance genre itself.

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A late medieval Icelandic romance about the maiden-king of France, the Nítíða saga was well received in its day and grew in popularity throughout post-Reformation Iceland. It has not, however, received the comprehensive scholarly analysis it deserves, or that other Icelandic sagas have received. Sheryl McDonald Werronen corrects that here, offering a detailed study of the saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions of identity, gender, female solidarity, and the romance genre itself.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and indexes.

Text in English; includes appendix with text of the Nítíða saga in Icelandic with English translation following (pages 221-248).

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