Tag: Setting

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A setting is the time and place in which a given narrative takes place. In video games, this is the map, the extent of navigable virtual space that is open to the player. It contains all individual spaces and places within the game. In medieval texts, setting serves the same purpose, although it can be harder to determine 'when' a narrative is taking place, particularly in genres like the förnaldarsogur, or legendary sagas (LINK), which take place in a vague period of Nordic prehistory (generally agreed to span the era known as the Migration Period, after the collapse of the western Roman Empire triggered a mass movements of peoples throughout Eurasia). Otherwise, settings in medieval texts are the same, serving as the stage for the action of the narrative and characters.

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