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Sigurdar Saga Pogla: The Shorter Redaction.~(book reviews)

Publication: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Publication Date: 01-JAN-95

Author: Barnes, Geraldine
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Matthew Driscoll's Sigurdhar saga pogla: The Shorter Redaction is a welcome addition to the growing collection of scholarly editions of medieval Icelandic romances. Popular in their own time, as the large number of surviving manuscripts attests (sixty in the case of the 'longer' recension of Sigurdhar saga pogla), the home-grown, 'independent' Icelandic riddarasogur have tended to be relegated to the academic sidelines in our day. Nevertheless, these poor relations in the saga family are currently enjoying a process of rehabilitation as the study of 'popular culture' itself becomes a respectable scholarly pursuit. After something of a dearth of 'independent' riddarasogur criticism since the publication of Margaret Schlauch's seminal and highly regarded Romance in Iceland (1934), the last ten years have produced two major studies: Jurg Glauser's Islandische Marchensagas (1983) and Marianne Kalinke's Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland (1990). Schlauch based much of her discussion on unedited manuscripts, and...

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