دانلود کتاب From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus

Translated by Derek Coltman. Originally published as "Du mythe au roman: La Saga de Hadingus et autres essais", 1970, Presses Universitaires de France.

In this work the distinguished religious historian Georges Dumézil considers how the early mythology of a people can be creatively transposed into the epic of their origin or the "history" of their kings, or the source of their fiction. The "Saga of Hadingus", written by a twelfth-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, provides an extraordinarily interesting instance of this kind of transposition. By comparing this work to a myth as it was handed down to Saxo, Professor Dumézil demonstrates how the saga can be seen as a literary structure derived from the religious structure of the myth.

This book contains six appendixes including two that consider the relationship between myth and folklore. They complement Professor Dumézil's careful exegeses and imaginative scholarship to make this the most important, specialized work on Scandinavian mythology available in English.