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SUMMARY
‘Reading for Saga Authorship. A Character-based Approach.’
Keywords: authorship, reading, audience.
The author’s aim is to support the reading of saga authorship as a creative and in-
terpretative act by connecting the methods and characters of the sagas use to present
themselves and their world and the literary and historical aims of the saga authors, a
link which is here labelled secondary authorship.
EFNISÁGRIP
Höfundur lýsir í þessari grein hvernig vinnulagi þeirra manna sem settu saman Íslend-
inga sögur er háttað og athugar hvort kalla megi þá höfunda í nútíma skilningi. Hann
sýnir fram á með dæmum hvernig hugmyndir þeirra og lífs- og söguleg sýn birtast í
sjálfum verkunum um leið og hann ræðir viðhorf bókmenntafræðinga nútímans, eins
og t.d. Rolands Barthes og Michels Foucault til höfunda og lesenda og ber saman við
hugmyndir þær sem koma fram í íslenskum miðaldabókmenntum.
Kári Gíslason
P.O. Box 6315
St Lucia
Queensland
Australia
kari_gislason@hotmail.com