From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus

by Georges Dumézil

In this work the distinguished religious historian Georges Dum zil considers how the early mythology of a people can be creatively transposed into the epic of their origin or the "history" of their kings, or the source of their fiction. The Saga of Hadingus, written by a twelfth-century Danish "historian," Saxo-Grammaticus, provides an extraordinarily interesting instance of this kind of transposition. By comparing this work to a myth as it was handed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226169723
• ISBN13: 9780226169729
• Release Date: July 1973
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"