This collection of studies is a sequel to Hägg's popular survey, 'The Novel of Antiquity' (1983), and a companion volume to his recent 'The Virgin and Her Lover'. The book offers a fully indexed version of his main contributions in the field, especially from the 1980s and 1990s, as well as previously unpublished work, a new Xenophon, and Heliodoros, Hägg also widens the scope with studies on the lives of Aesop and Apollonios of Tyana and on the oriental reception of the Greek novel.

Explores the links between local sanctity and the making of national myths in medieval historical writing. This book is based on a conference held in Bergen in November 2003 on 'Historiography and the Holy' and forms part of the research programme at the i

Norwegian medieval Latin literature was in its prime in the latter half of the 12th century. A number of Latin works on Norwegian history came into existence. This title presents these works and their backgrounds, and examines the correlation between the Latin and the Norse tradition.