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Cold Cases: Law and Legal Detail in the Íslendingasögur

Author(s) -

Hannah Burrows

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

parergon

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103

H-Index - 9

eISSN - 1832-8334

pISSN - 0313-6221

DOI - 10.1353/pgn.0.0095

Subject(s) - narrative , law , project commissioning , literature , history , legal writing , publishing , sociology , linguistics , political science , philosophy , legal research , art

The Íslendingasögur [Sagas of Icelanders] are often said to be obsessed with law. But while the importance of legal themes to saga narrative cannot be doubted, the extent to which the sagas cite technical details of law and legal process varies greatly across the corpus. The use of law in this manner has various literary and stylistic effects which should be viewed as integral to the narrative design, and explored as such within individual sagas.

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