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Conversations with the Age of History. Narrative Art of Icelandic Sagas and the Image of the Past by Véstein Ólason.
Dialogue is the subject of this book in two senses. First, it is argued that the Icelandic sagas are dialogues between the authors and their past, dialogues between the Middle Ages and the Age of History or the Viking Age, the storytellers' search for an understanding of the world of the past and thereby themselves. Second, it discusses the dialogues of modern readers with the past and their attempts to participate in the exchanges of their elders from their own perspective.
Dialogue is the subject of this book in two senses. First, it is argued that the Icelandic sagas are dialogues between the authors and their past, dialogues between the Middle Ages and the Age of History or the Viking Age, the storytellers' search for an understanding of the world of the past and thereby themselves. Second, it discusses the dialogues of modern readers with the past and their attempts to participate in the exchanges of their elders from their own perspective.