Sowing strokes and reaping blows: scenic proverbialization and paroemial cognitive patterning in Brennu-Njáls saga

This study is a paroemiological consideration of Brennu-Njáls saga in which a set of repeated scenes that include or are associated with repeated proverbial utterances are examined in order to draw conclusions as to the compositional role of proverbs and paroemial material in the saga. The study be...

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Other Authors: Harris, Richard L.
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-08-2192