Inhalt: | Biographical note: Victor Millet, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Heike Sahm, University of Siegen, Germany. The volume provides an overview of the origins of early medieval aristocratic literature. Although there are regional, linguistic and formal differences, one can observe a number of similarities. Oral literature disseminates a range of themes that are shared by narratives in most parts of the continent. The authors address these similarities in Roman, Nordic, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic literature and use different methodologies to explain them. |
