Between history and myth : stories of Harald Fairhair and the founding of the state[Electronic book] / Bruce Lincoln.

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Lincoln, Bruce [Author]

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TextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (x, 285 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780226141084

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Electronic Books.

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DL463 .B489 2014

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Summary: Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.

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Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.

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List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Gyða; Chapter 3. Rögnvald the Powerful; Chapter 4. Snorri Sturluson; Chapter 5. Commander Guthorm; Chapter 6. Ragnhild; Chapter 7. Dofri the Giant; Chapter 8. Hálfdan the Black; Chapter 9. Shaggy Harald; Chapter 10. Ingjald the Wicked; Chapter 11. Conclusions; Coda: A Reader Reflects; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Synoptic Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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