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Heather O’Donoghue.
The Genesis of a Saga Narrative: Verse and Prose in Kormaks Saga.
Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Series: Oxford English Monographs.
ISBN 0198117833;
ISBN-13: 9780198117834.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Biddles, Guildford & King’s Lynn.
Size: 143×221×17mm.
Page count: xiv, 193pp.
Main language: English; quotations given with facing translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and marks on its dustjacket, some fading and wear at its edges and corners; a few marks on the page edges, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £35.00
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[Publisher’s price £112.50]
Weight without packaging: 400g.

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Please note, this book is a literary study and does not include an edition of the Saga.

Contents: Introduction to the Saga; Kormakr’s courtship; Kormakr & Bersi; The Bersi ‘digression’; Þorvaldr Tinteinn; Final stages; Conclusion — genesis of a saga narrative.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: yes

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