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Tragic Imagination

Tragic contradictions in the Sagas—Gisli, Njal	207
Fantasy	208
Laxdæla, a reduction of the story of Sigurd and Brynhild to the terms of common life	209
Compare Ibsen's Warriors in Helgeland	209
The Sagas are a late stage in the progress of heroic literature	210
The Northern rationalism	212
Self-restraint and irony	213
The elegiac mood infrequent	215
The story of Howard of Icefirth—ironical pathos	216
The conventional Viking	218
The harmonies of Njála and of Laxdæla	219 222
The two speeches of Gudrun	223