Legendary sagas as historical sources

This article advocates using legendary sagas as historical sources, since these texts in spite of their non-realistic content, can tell historians a lot about the context in which the stories were written, and hence about the conditions that the people listening to them lived under. Using legendary...

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Main Author: Hans Jacob Orning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: OpenEdition 2015-10-01
Series:Tabularia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/tabularia/2203
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