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History and Heroic Tale: A Symposium

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Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium, organized by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages, Held at Odense University on 21-22 November, 1983.

Author(s): Tore Nyberg, lørn Piø, Preben Meulengracht Sørensen, Aage Trommer (eds.)
Publisher: Odense University Press
Year: 1985

Language: English
Pages: 242

Preface 7
The Homeric Oral Tradition and the Development of a Greek Cultural Identity: Typical and Special Factors / GEOFFREY S. KIRK 9
Die Schwanenrittersage als Ursprungsmythos mittelalterlicher Fürstengeschlechter / HERBERT KOLB 23
Irish Origin Legends and Genealogy: Recurrent Aetiologies / DONNCHADH Ó CORRÁIN 31
Some Functions of Origin Stories in Early Medieval Wales / P. P. SIMS-WILLIAMS 97
The "Pověst' vremennyx lět" and the Question of Truth / OMELJAN PRITSAK 133
Jean d'Outremeuse, les origines légendaires et le passé carolingien de la patrie liégeoise. Modalité d'une reconstruction du passé / MADELEINE TYSSENS 173
Starkad in Saxo's Gesta Danorum / INGE SKOVGAARD-PETERSEN 207
History and Heroic Tale: the Authority of the Poet. Some synthesizing abstractions / GERD WOLFGANG WEBER 223
Members and Associate Members of the Symposium 239