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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.Durrenberger, E. Paul is the author of 'Saga of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue With an Essay on the Structure and Translation of the Saga' with ISBN 9780838634653 and ISBN 0838634656.
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