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Tragic Imagination
Оглавление| 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 |
