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ICELANDIC FAMILY SAGAS. SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING THE VALIDITY OF RECONSTRUCTING VIKING AGE NORSE SOCIETY ON THE BASIS OF CONTEMPORANEOUS LITERARY EVIDENCE


ÂŁUKASZ JEZIERSKI
WROCLAW, POLAND

Issue:

CP, Number 11

Section:

No. 11 (2006)  Editorial

Abstract:

This paper aims to call into attention the fact that the dynamics of the Viking Age Norse society and its cultural patterns, in dearth of adequate archaeological evidence available to a scholar, can be researched by means of analysing its literary heritage, preserved in the form of sagas. While I am far from arguing that this peculiar genre should be indiscriminately treated as a body of veritable records of events, I do make a claim that sagas can be considered to be vessels of Viking Age Norse values, beliefs, and particular outlook on the world, among many.

Keywords:

Viking Age, Norse community, saga, literature, language, culture, (ethnic) identity.

Code [ID]:

CP200611V00S01A0006 [0002094]


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