Scandinavian Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Origins
The earliest prose in Scandinavia consists of medieval law collections, chronicles, legends of saints, and other didactic literature; fictional prose came later, with the emergence of the Icelandic sagas. The so-called kings’ sagas and family sagas are set in the period from 850 to 1200; the contemporary sagas are set in the authors’ own time, from 1180 to 1350; and a special group, the fornaldar sagas, remove the action to a distant past before the discovery of Iceland.
Before 1800
Apart from a number of the kings’ sagas, most of the sagas...
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