Between History and Myth
Download or Read eBook Between History and Myth PDF written by Bruce Lincoln and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Bruce Lincoln |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2014-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780226140926 |
| ISBN-13 | : 022614092X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Between History and Myth by : Bruce Lincoln
Book excerpt: 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.
