Meli, Marcello. Preface to La saga di Egill

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  • Author: Meli, Marcello
  • Title: Prefazione
  • Published in: La saga di Egill
  • Translator: Marcello Meli
  • Place, Publisher: Milano: Mondadori
  • Year: 1997
  • Pages: ????
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  • Reference: Meli, Marcello. Prefazione. La saga di Egill. Transl. Marcello Meli. Milano: Mondadori, 1997, pp. ??-??.

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The Italian translation of Egil's saga is prefaced by a thorough elucidation of the thematic cores which imbue this ‘collective biography’. Light is first cast on hereditary law and social relations, with particular attention to the warden-ward and the king-retinue relationships. Attention is then drawn to the centrality of the banqueting hall, where the outstanding scald is presented as the respectable ‘goldsmith of sound’. A description of Egil’s eccentric personality follows in accordance with that.


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