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Saga Tradition

Saga Tradition is a narrative framework within historical legend studies that systematically preserves and transmits culturally significant events and heroic lineages through structured prose storytelling, distinguished by its emphasis on genealogical continuity, oral-formulaic composition, and contextual historicity in Norse and Icelandic medieval literature.

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83

Authors

15

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2017–2026

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Publications

70

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland

Dan Bauer, William Ian Miller · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 1993 · 173 citations

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Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power.

Richard F. Tomasson, Jesse L. Byock · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1989 · 101 citations

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Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland

Robert C. Figueira · History Reviews of New Books · 1991 · 82 citations

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The Art-Work of the Future and Other Works

Richard Wagner, Wm. A. Ellis · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1995 · 65 citations

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Plague and landscape resilience in premodern Iceland

Richard Streeter, Andrew Dugmore, Orri Vésteinsson · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 62 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JL
    Jesse L. Byock

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    5 publications · 193 citations

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  2. TA
    Theodore Andersson

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 89 citations

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  3. ÁJ
    Ármann Jakobsson

    University of Iceland, Iceland

    2 publications · 36 citations

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  4. PH
    Pernille Hermann

    University of Science and Culture, Iran

    2 publications · 26 citations

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  5. LL
    Lars Lönn­roth

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    2 publications · 31 citations

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Institutions

15

  1. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    55 citations

  2. University of Iceland

    Reykjavik, Iceland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    76 citations

  3. University of Ljubljana

    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  4. UiT The Arctic University of Norway

    Tromsø, Norway

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  5. Birds Canada

    Port Rowan, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    54 citations

  6. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    124 citations

  7. University of Science and Culture

    Tehran, Iran

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  8. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

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Venues

  1. Scandinavian Studies

    8 publications · 107 citations

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  2. The Modern Language Review

    5 publications · 101 citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 168 citations

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  4. Viator

    3 publications · 62 citations

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  5. The Annual of the British School at Athens

    2 publications · 88 citations

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