Of Heroes and Cods’ Heads: Saga Meets Film in Gerpla
ABSTRACT: Halldór Laxness’s satirical novel Gerpla (1952) is a socially analytic work that lays bare various misconceptions about Icelandic medieval literature celebrated by the Nazis as well as many Icelanders in the first half of the twentieth century. When it...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Alberta Library
2019-12-01
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Series: | Scandinavian-Canadian Studies |
Online Access: | https://scancan.net/index.php/scancan/article/view/167 |