Vol. 4 (2012): Heimskringla’ and the Kings’ Sagas

Articoli

• Inventing a saga form: The development of the kings’ sagas

  Armann Jacobsson

  1-22

• One god and one king: The unification of Norway according to Snorri Sturluson

  Sverre Bagge

  23-47

• The king in rhyme: Some observations on Óláfs ríma Haraldssonar as a reworking of Snorri’s Óláfs saga helga

  Massimiliano Bampi

  49-65

• A legendary ancestry for poets: Skáldatal in Heimskringla and Edda manuscripts

  Adele Cipolla

  67-89

• Poetics and politics in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar

  Maria Cristina Lombardi

  91-115

• Baptising an image: Rivers in pre- Christian and early Christian tradition

  John McKinnell

  117-140

• La preistoria del Ynglingatal

  Marcello Meli

  141-157

• Young men’s journeys in Heimskringla and the influence of queens

  Agneta Ney

  159-169

• Grand finales in the kings’ sagas between Christian piety and Germanic stoicism

  Giovanna Salvucci

  171-203