TY - JOUR
AU - Cormack, Margaret (Margaret Jean)
AB -  Journal of English and Germanic Philology, July 2009 conundrum that could occupy an entire book. His discussion centers on Gabriel Turville-Petre's famous dictum concerning hagiography, that "the learned literature did not teach the Icelanders what to think or what to say, but it taught them how to say it." Phelpstead writes that this is not the whole story, that he has, in fact, demonstrated that in the lives of the royal saints in the Kings' Sagas, "hagiography is also the ultimate source of much of what is said" (p. 223). He has indeed argued most cogently and convincingly that in the lives of the royal saints there occurs a "`novelization' or `dialogization' involving the development of literary techniques already employed in a more restricted fashion in the Saints' Lives themselves" (p. 221). Holy Vikings is a stimulating and provocative study. It proves that resort to theory, if employed as astutely as Carl Phelpstead has done here, can be most productive. Marianne Kalinke University of llinois at Urbana-Champaign Íslendingabók--Kristni saga. The Book of the Icelanders--The Story of the Conversion. Translated with an introduction by Siân Grønlie. University College, London: The Viking Society for Northern Research, 2006. Pp. xlix + 
TI - Íslendingabók—Kristni saga. The Book of the Icelanders—The Story of the Conversion (review)
JF - JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
DA - 2009-06-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-illinois-press/slendingab-k-kristni-saga-the-book-of-the-icelanders-the-story-of-the-DhqkwWPYCB
SP - 382
EP - 384
VL - 108
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -