TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lincoln,Bruce
TI  - Between history and myth: stories of Harald Fairhair and the founding of the state[Electronic book] 
SN  - 9780226141084
AV  - DL463 .B489 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Harald
KW  - Haarfagre, King of Norway
KW  - Approximately 860-approximately 940
KW  - Norway
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - History
KW  - To 1030
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Available through University Press Scholarship Online (SHEDL); 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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