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Between History and Myth

Between History and Myth PDF Author: Bruce Lincoln
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022614092X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Book Description
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.