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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Main Author: Wyly, Bryan Weston (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Morcelliana 2015
In: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2015, Volume: 81, Issue: 2, Pages: 440-479
Further subjects:B Historiography standards
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

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