Author: Bekker-Nielsen, Hans ; & Carlé, Birte ; editors:
Title: Saints and Sagas : A Symposium
Description: Odense, Odense University Press, (1994). orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, 130 pp.. ISBN: 8778380480. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Proceedings of the sixteenth international symposium organized by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at Odense University on 18-19 November, 1991. Contains 6 papers, all in English. Includes: The Legend of the Virgin Saint; Saints' Lives & Icelandic Literature in the 13th and 14th Centuries; The Hagiography of Snorri Sturluson especially in the Great Saga of St Olaf; Saints' Lives & Sagas; The 'Voice of the People in some Late-Medieval Miracle-Collections; The Wronged Daughter in Fairytale: 'Unnatural Love' in the Cult of Saint Dympna & Charles Perrault's 'Peau-d'Âne'.

Keywords: 8778380480 Medieval Literature, Christian Saints, Hagiography, Literary Criticism, History of Religion, Saga, Sagas, ,