Unwanted

The 9 essays collected in this volume are the result of a workshop for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies held at the Institute for Nordic Philology (LMU) in Munich in December 2018. The contributors focus on >unwanted<, illicit,="" neglected,="" and="" marginalised="" elements="" in="" saga="" literature="" and="" research="" on="" it.="" the="" chapters="" cover="" a="" wide="" range="" of="" intra-textual="" phenomena,="" narrative="" strategies,="" and="" understudied="" aspects="" of="" individual="" texts="" and="" subgenres.="" the="" analyses="" demonstrate="" the="" importance="" of="" deviance="" and="" transgression="" as="" literary="" characteristics="" of="" saga="" narration,="" as="" well="" as="" the="" discursive="" parameters="" that="" have="" been="" dominant="" in="" saga="" studies.="" the="" aim="" of="" this="" collection="" is="" to="" highlight="" the="" productiveness="" of="" developing="" modified="" methodological="" approaches="" to="" the="" sagas="" and="" their="" study,="" with="" a="" starting="" point="" in="" narratological="" considerations.="" andreas="" schmidt="" and="" daniela="" hahn="" are="" postdoctoral="" researchers,="" reading="" and="" teaching="" old="" icelandic="" literature="" from="" narratological="" perspectives.="" both="" completed="" their="" phds="" in="" scandinavian="" studies="" at="" the="" ludwig-maximilians-universität="" in="" munich.="" following="" bad="" boys="" and="" wicked="" women="" (münchner="" nordistische="" studien="" 27),="" this="" is="" their="" second="" co-edited="" collection="" of="">