Lincoln, Bruce. <br/><br/>
Between history and myth :  stories of Harald Fairhair and the founding of the state[Electronic book] / 
Bruce Lincoln. 
 - Chicago :  The University of Chicago Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 285 pages, 4 pages of plates) :  illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) 
<br/><br/> Available through University Press Scholarship Online (SHEDL). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Gyđa; 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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226141084 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Harald I,  Haarfagre, King of Norway,  approximately 860-approximately 940. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Harald--Haarfagre, King of Norway--Approximately 860-approximately 940.<br/>Norway--Antiquities.<br/>Norway--History--To 1030.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DL463  / .B489 2014