Written Icelandic reconceptualizations of Viking stories and mythology that Jiang calls foundational for modern European literature.
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Written Icelandic reconceptualizations of Viking stories and mythology that Jiang calls foundational for modern European literature.
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Iceland receives special weight because Jiang treats it as a Viking-derived site of early parliament, unusual social egalitarianism, and saga literature that fed modern European culture.
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"...Vikings were re -conceptualized and written down in Iceland. And these sagas, they're called sagas, okay, would become the foundation of modern European literature...."
"And then what they will also do is go west to found colonies. They will make settlements in Iceland, in Greenland. And in modern..."
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