Saga Of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue
With an Essay on the Structure and Translation of the Saga
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In this book, Medieval Icelandic society is placed in an anthropological perspective through cross-cultural comparisons and the use of close translation to preserve the rhetorical devices and cultural conventions of its composers. The Icelandic family sagas cover a period of two hundred years starting from the first settlement in the ninth century.