Grand finales in the kings’ sagas between Christian piety and Germanic stoicism

The Old Norse kings’ sagas often display grand finales and impressive endings. From time to time, they also display the so-called ‘beautiful deaths’, i.e. those deaths that have the immediate advantage of rousing admiration in a secular sense and to convey immortality, at least in the memories of p...

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Main Author: Giovanna Salvucci
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Ledizioni 2024-09-01
Series:Filologia Germanica
Online Access:https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/filologiagermanica/article/view/2613
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