Icelandic Family Sagas Some Thoughts Concerning the Validity of Reconstructing Viking Age Norse Society on the Basis of Contemporaneous Literary Evid
Icelandic Family Sagas Some Thoughts Concerning the Validity of Reconstructing Viking Age Norse Society on the Basis of Contemporaneous Literary Evid

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to call into attention the fact that the dynamics of the Viking Age Norse society and its cultural patterns, in dearth of adequate archaeological evidence available to a scholar, can be researched by means of analysing its literary heritage, preserved in the form of sagas. While I am far from arguing that this peculiar genre should be indiscriminately treated as a body of veritable records of events, I do make a claim that sagas can be considered to be vessels of Viking Age Norse values, beliefs, and particular outlook on the world, among many.

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