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The second volume of the new history of Icelandic literature has now been published; it reaches up to the year 1750. Vesteinn Olason, the general editor of the two volumes, also wrote Ch. I, the introduction (9-21); Ch. II, on the Islendingasogur and pattir (23-164); and Ch. V, on late medieval poetry (283-378). Sverrir Tomasson is the author of Ch. IV, which treats late medieval religious prose texts (247-82), while Torfi H. Tulinius wrote Ch. III, dealing with the fornaldarsogur and riddarasogur (165-245), and Boovar Guomundsson the concluding Ch. VI, devoted to the period ...

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