Reconsidering the tradition: the Odinic hero as saga protagonist

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Reconsidering the tradition: the Odinic hero as saga protagonist

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate and reconceive the scholarly understanding of one of Óðinn’s aspects – Óðinn as a patron to a mortal hero figure. This theme runs through a number of Old Icelandic and continental Scandinavian texts, but it is most widely represented in the fornaldarsaga gen...

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Main Author:	Matveeva, Elizaveta
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Odin Hero Sagas Icelandic Literature Scandinavian Literature Fornaldarsaga
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33637/

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