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04487aam a2200409 i 4500 001 9C3E56DC580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 171027s2017 dk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017408562 020 $a 8776749355 020 $a 9788776749354 035 $a (OCoLC)993859858 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d QGK $d SHS $d OCLCF $d GZM $d STF $d IXA $d UAT $d YDX $d UAB $d OHX $d OCLCO $d DHA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ic--- 050 00 $a PT7154 $b .O76 2017 072 7 $a PT $2 lcco 082 04 $a 839.63 (O) $2 23 084 $a 058.39 100 1 $a Orning, Hans Jacob, $e author. 245 14 $a The reality of the fantastic : $b the magical, political and social universe of late medieval saga manuscripts / $c Hans Jacob Orning. 264 1 $a [Odense] : $b University Press of Southern Denmark, $c 2017. 300 $a 387 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a The Viking collection. Studies in Northern civilization, $x 0108-8408 ; $v volume 23 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-367) and index. 505 00 $g Index. $g Abbreviations -- $g Introduction -- $t An elite society -- $t The genre concept : gain or pain? -- $t What is a saga? : the philological challenge -- $t The reality of the fantastic? : the historical challenge -- $t The historical background -- $t Centre and periphery -- $t Magic -- $t The political universe -- $t Social hierarchy -- $t Three modes of reading -- $t Sagas as stories : vehicles of ideology -- $t Sagas as structures : vehicles of myths -- $t Sagas as dynamics : vehicles of negotiation -- $t The setup of this book -- $t AM 343a 4to -- $t Introduction -- $t Short summary of the sagas in AM 343a 4to -- $t Stories -- $t A story of the suppression of magic -- $t A story of the formation of a political realm -- $t A story of the establishment of social hierarchy -- $t The Hrafnista story : conclusions and limitations -- $t Oppositions -- $t The magical aspect : the periphery as alien -- $t The political aspect : the periphery as subordinate -- $t The social aspect : the ideal order -- $t Conclusion : Us vs. them -- $t Dynamics -- $t The magical aspect : the periphery as similar -- $t The political aspect : the powerful periphery -- $t The social aspect : a contested order -- $t Conclusion : self-governed communities -- $t The literary and historical context of AM 343a 4to -- $t Otherness -- $t Power -- $t Order -- $t Synchronic analysis : AM 471 4to and AM 343a 4to -- $t The magical aspect : the periphery as similar -- $t The political aspect : the powerful periphery -- $t The social aspect : a contested order -- $t Tensions between magnates and kings -- $t Magnate rivalry and community -- $t The king and the people : a distant relationship -- $t Conclusion -- $t Diachronic analysis : holm perg 7 4to and AM 343a 4to -- $t The magical aspect : the periphery as similar -- $t The political aspect : the powerful periphery -- $t The social aspect : a contested order -- $t Conclusion -- $t The fantastic and the real -- $t From text to manuscript -- $t Sweet dreams are made of this -- $t Scary monsters (and super creeps) -- $t You can't always get what you want -- $t From manuscript to textual community -- $t From textual community to fifteenth-century Iceland -- $t A chaotic society -- $t A feuding society -- $t From free state to statefree Iceland? -- $t A new society -- $t An elite society -- $g Bibliography -- $g Index of manuscripts -- $g Index. 520 $a The reality of the fantastic' combines a 'new philological' close study of a fifteenth-century Icelandic manuscript compilation of fifteen fornaldarsoÌgur and riddarasoÌgur, AM 343a 4to, with an historically-based analysis of the manuscript's various contents, demonstrating how fictions that are in many respects non-realistic can be made to yield up insights into the real-world concerns and interests of a group of fifteenth-century Icelanders. Both the methodology of this study and its conclusions should interest readers from diverse fields, including literature, history and manuscript studies. -- cf. ERASMUS BOEKHANDEL BV (Netherlands). 610 20 $a Stofnun AÌrna MagnuÌssonar aÌ IÌslandi. $k Manuscript. $n AM 343a 4to. 650 0 $a Sagas $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Iceland $x History $y To 1262. 650 7 $a Sagas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01103425 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Viking collection ; $v v. 23. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116040132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C3E56DC580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search