title: The Valhalla saga by Snorri Kristjánsson: perception of the Old Norse culture in modern Iceland prose in English
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metadata.value: Markelova, Olga Alexandrovna
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metadata.value: 2019-12-11T09:25:28Z
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metadata.value: 2019-12-11T09:25:28Z
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metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Markelova O. A. The Valhalla saga by Snorri Kristjánsson: perception of the Old Norse culture in modern Iceland prose in English. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2019, 16 (3): 354–366.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2019.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16776
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metadata.value: The paper deals with The Valhalla saga (2013–2015), the novel trilogy by Snorri Kristjansson,
  the Icelander who writes in English and is familiar both with the Icelandic and the Anglo-
  American traditions of reception of the Old Norse. The question is how these two ways of
  reception interact in the trilogy. In modern Icelandic literature, the way of reception depends
  on the genre of the works referred to: if the modern work is based on sagas, its starting point
  is the text of a particular saga, but if it is based on mythology, the main focus is on the plot
  of the myths, without regard to particular texts. Besides, the Anglo-American (as well as the
  continental European) tradition of reception deals with some general “Viking” universum,
  with original persons and plots that are not related to particular ancient texts. The universum
  can be heroized or romanticized. The Valhalla saga begins as a historical novel and gradually
  develops into a mythological novel, as the plot of Ragnarok becomes the main subject matter.
  Still, while the mythological element in the novels increases, the historical one also becomes
  stronger, and the battle of the gods and the forces of chaos is attributed to the exact date in
  the history of the North. The Valhalla Saga is a complicated synthesis of the Icelandic and the
  Anglo-American ways of reception of the Old Norse universum, but the inertia of the both
  literary traditions is overcome in the trilogy.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 16; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modern Icelandic literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Norse literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical novel
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reception
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Valhalla saga by Snorri Kristjánsson: perception of the Old Norse culture in modern Iceland prose in English
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metadata.value: Article
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