Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University College London
Chapter title
Kurzweilige Wahrheiten: Ari und das Ynglingatal in den Prologen der Heimskringla
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Walter de Gruyter
Book title
Snorri Sturluson - Historiker, Dichter, Politiker
ISBN of book
978-3110336313
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This chapter, at 38 pages the extended version of a paper delivered by the author in a Munich symposium on the historian Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), argues for the first time that Snorri his both versions of his prologue to Heimskringla (a collection of Norwegian kings' lives) justified his use of a potentially risky (because comic) genealogical poem, Ynglingatal, as the historical base for Ynglinga saga (the first in the collection), not with his own words, but with those of Ari Þorgilsson (1067-1148), who made a similar (mis)use of Ynglingatal in work now lost.
