The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition

"The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition: A Discourse on Method offers a new approach to assessing the role of orality in medieval Icelandic society. Sigurdsson explores how our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas must change if they are assumed to have grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling comparable to those described by modern fieldworkers and theorists of oral tradition."--BOOK JACKET.