The prosimetrum of old norse historiography – looking for parallels

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    The Oldest Saga`s text of this stanza is incomplete, and I have therefore cited the stanza from the Legendary Saga. See e_g the charts the interrelations of the texts belonging to the kings` saga complex presented by Andersson, "Kings` sagas" 204, and Fidjestl, Det norrne fyrstediktet 10. A Diachronic View 83% of the stanzas quoted in Heimskringla, the apogee of the kings` saga genre, are as mentioned extradiegetic and it has become a commonplace of saga scholarship to observe that the kings` sagas and the sagas of Icelanders use verses in different ways . . .

     

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