Beschreibung:
A compelling argument that far from developing in a literary vacuum, saga literature interacts in lively, creative and critical ways with one of the central genres of the European middle ages.
PrefaceSaints' Lives and Sagas of IcelandersThe Failed Saint: Oddr's Óláfr TryggvasonThe Confessor, the Martyr and the ConvertThe Noble Heathen and the Missionary SaintThe Outlaw, the Exile and the Desert SaintThe Saint as Friend and PatronConclusion