Seen from this perspective, it is understandable that the notion that the urnfields and barrows were funerary monuments is never found in the sagas.
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A crucial question is that of the historical depth of the sagas connected with prehistoric burial monuments.
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Secondly, there is the group of umfield sites connected with sagas about witches and, occasionally, the devil.
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Prehistoric barrows or urnfields connected with sagas.
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When people have been through such sagas they will accept a house on top of a cliff, in the middle of a moor or anywhere.
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Two issues are, once again, causing major concern, both of them long-running sagas.
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I hope that, in view of the series of sagas, he will listen and act.
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However, unless proper care in the community is available related to the individual cases, there will be tragedies and there will be distressing sagas concerning aimless, homeless and ill people.
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Thesagaof the family's rise and fall mirrors its success and failures in implementing the techniques of politica de familia.
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Accounts of "seir" later made it into sagas and other literary sources, while further evidence has been unearthed by archaeologists.
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Like the sagas, the book relies on verbs and nouns to drive the narrative, with only a minimum of adjectives and descriptive passages.
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Icelandic sagas make many references to sea voyages.
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Also, perhaps from the 10th century onwards, previously independent sagas and story cycles were added to the compilation...
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He was deeply inspired by the medieval romances and sagas; his style was deliberately archaic, based on medieval romances.
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Only one half-stanza of it has been preserved in the kings' sagas.
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