Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland. The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent.
- ISBN10 0801414474
- ISBN13 9780801414473
- Publish Date 1 May 1982
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 6 November 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 219
- Language English