From Legend to Cult Figure
Oddr Snorrason's biography of Óláfr Tryggvason likely represents one of the earliest attempts by an Icelander to compose an extended literary narrative. Oddr clearly wrote for an audience whose standards of historiography had evolved outside of Iceland, although his informants and source materi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Morcelliana
2015
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2015, Volume: 81, Issue: 2, Pages: 440-479 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Hákon Hlaðajarl Sigurðarson B Gesta Hammaburgensis B Kenning B Olaf I Tryggvason, King of Norway, 968-1000 B völva B Hagiography B Apologetics B sceptre B Snorrason, Oddr |
| Summary: | Oddr Snorrason's biography of Óláfr Tryggvason likely represents one of the earliest attempts by an Icelander to compose an extended literary narrative. Oddr clearly wrote for an audience whose standards of historiography had evolved outside of Iceland, although his informants and source material lay largely beyond the purview of such European culture. This paper focusses on Oddr's interpretation of the vernacular genre of the scaldic drápa in his construction of a hagiographical account of Óláfr Tryggvason for the international community of ecclesiastical literati who would have had interest in such an apologetics at the end of the twelfth century. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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