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Body description as genre marker in Jómsvíkinga saga

Publication |
2018

Abstract

In Jómsvíkinga saga, researchers have found traits connecting it to different saga genres. If we here omit new genres created for this saga, such as 'anti-royal' or 'political sagas' which do not help much in understanding of relations to other literary works, it concerns three traditional genres: konungasögur, fornaldarsögur and Íslendingasögur.