This book presents the first collection of the earliest West Germanic bridal-quest narratives together with a comparative study of them. In contrast to earlier studies, the author locates the origin of this narrative tradition in the oral and written Germanic literary tradition, a result that leads to a re-assessment of the genesis of vernacular German and Scandinavian literature. The chapters deal in chronological order with the Latin chronicles of the Germanic peoples and with the early Latin and vernacular literature in Germany and Scandinavia.
- ISBN10 3110184508
- ISBN13 9783110184501
- Publish Date 18 April 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint De Gruyter
- Edition Reprint 2012
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 242
- Language English
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