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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

The Kalevala

Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Nordic Childhoods 1700�1960

Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Love Books

Literary Impressionisms

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Seven Viking Romances

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking

Les galoches du bonheur

Between History and Myth

Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders

Forays into Swedish Poetry

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Non-Native Sources for the Scandinavian Kings' Sagas

Babette's Feast

Die Edda (Deutsche Ausgabe)

Oppikirja suomalaisen kirjallisuuden historiassa

The Saga of the Jómsvíkings

Sanctity in the North

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