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William A. Craigie

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... / and outside of that, all that is known of early Germanic religion is meagre indeed. In the beliefs which lie on the borders of mythology and religion, in the supernatural of every kind, the sagas are extremely rich, and few literatures possess more impressive ghost-stories. On this account the sagas are of immense value to the student of folk-lore, even if great caution must be exercised in drawing inferences from them, for reasons which will appear in a subsequent chapter. HISTORICAL, SAGAS RELATING TO ICELAND AND GREENLAND Landndma-bdk, would be sufficient in themselves to show that a very great knowledge of the past history of the island existed in Iceland in the twelfth century; but it would have been impossible to imagine how rich and full the traditions actually were, if so many of them had not formed the bases of separate sagas. In almost every district of Iceland, but especially (as we have already said) in the west and north, the memory of great men and distinguished families had been handed down, and out of these traditions came CHAPTER III the collection of sagas now commonly grouped under the name of Mendinga sbgur. Although they may thus be classed under a common title, and have certain characteristic features in common, these sagas diner greatly from each other in length, and in the extent to which they can be regarded as having a genuinely historical character. Some are quite short, covering thirty or forty small pages, or even less, while the larger extend to two, three, or even four hundred. In most cases it is clear that the shorter sagas are more original, or represent an earlier literary stage, than the longer ones; the latter are either composite, made up by working together two or three separate narratives, or...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Icelandic Sagas. To get started finding The Icelandic Sagas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... / and outside of that, all that is known of early Germanic religion is meagre indeed. In the beliefs which lie on the borders of mythology and religion, in the supernatural of every kind, the sagas are extremely rich, and few literatures possess more impressive ghost-stories. On this account the sagas are of immense value to the student of folk-lore, even if great caution must be exercised in drawing inferences from them, for reasons which will appear in a subsequent chapter. HISTORICAL, SAGAS RELATING TO ICELAND AND GREENLAND Landndma-bdk, would be sufficient in themselves to show that a very great knowledge of the past history of the island existed in Iceland in the twelfth century; but it would have been impossible to imagine how rich and full the traditions actually were, if so many of them had not formed the bases of separate sagas. In almost every district of Iceland, but especially (as we have already said) in the west and north, the memory of great men and distinguished families had been handed down, and out of these traditions came CHAPTER III the collection of sagas now commonly grouped under the name of Mendinga sbgur. Although they may thus be classed under a common title, and have certain characteristic features in common, these sagas diner greatly from each other in length, and in the extent to which they can be regarded as having a genuinely historical character. Some are quite short, covering thirty or forty small pages, or even less, while the larger extend to two, three, or even four hundred. In most cases it is clear that the shorter sagas are more original, or represent an earlier literary stage, than the longer ones; the latter are either composite, made up by working together two or three separate narratives, or...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Icelandic Sagas. To get started finding The Icelandic Sagas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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