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Description of  Holy Vikings: Saints Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings Sagas (Volume 340) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

0866983880 pdf Using Bakhtinian theoretical concepts, this study examines how generic conventions are brought into dialogue in the Old Icelandic sagas biographies of royal saints. This approach reveals hagiographys role in sagas origins and illuminates the depiction of rulers as conforming only sometimes to saintly ideals.