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Elements of superstition in the Icelandic family sagas.

The Icelandic family sagas were committed to vellum from oral traditions during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Concerned primarily with actual persons and events from about A.D. 825 to the middle of the eleventh century, they also embody tales of supranatural occurrences and accounts of superstitious beliefs and practices, an analysis of which is the subject of this essay. [...]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.43755
Date January 1966
CreatorsHouser, George J.
ContributorsPuhvel, M. (Supervisor)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Arts (Department of English)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: 000885607, proquestno: AAIMK00814, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.

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