Saxo Grammaticus e Snorri Sturluson: uno studio comparativo

Abstract

The main historians of medieval Scandinavia, Saxo Grammaticus and Snorri Sturluson, are often mentioned together, but – strangely enough – have not been the object of a comparative study before the 2010 publication of Saxo og Snorre, a miscellaneous book edited by J.G. Jørgensen, K. Friis-Jensen and E. Mundal. The ten articles, originally presented at a conference in Oslo in 2007, are written in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, but are all completed by an abstract in English. Almost all of them consider both Saxo and Snorri in a comparative view, while casting new light on the two authors’ works. The articles have different perspectives and are organised in four sections, concerning – respectively – reception, literary and historiographical tradition, ideological themes and mythology. It is worth observing that, in such variety of perspectives, a few topics occur frequently, i.e. the choice of language, the approach to religion and the mythical past. This book offers an interesting reading to scholars of different fields and approaches