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My starting point was the heroical biographical structure ( by Otto Rank, Joseph Campbell, lord Raglan) and I compared the way saints are born, raised etc. to the theories about how heroes are supposed to do the same things. Basically I tried to find out how Irish saints are supposed to live their lives - what are they expected to do during their lifetimes and how do they start their couriers, deal with kings or druids who resist them and how do they die. And of course it was tempting to compare them to the secular Irish heroes as well, but I really couldn't go too far in that direction, because of the size of my work. Katja Ritari > > Hello Katja: > > Irish hagiography (and its similarities to and differences from the more > secular myths) is a major interest of mine, too. What sort of biographical > structures did you discuss in your thesis, if I may ask? > > Francine Nicholson > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Katja J Ritari [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:40 AM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: new member > > > > > > Katja Ritari, University of Helsinki > > I am interested in hagiography, especially Irish, and my MA thesis was > > about the biographical structures in early Irish saints' lives. > > > > ---------------------- > > [log in to unmask] > > Sunilantie 5 C 23 > > 00720 Helsinki > > Finland > > tel. 040 - 724 92 13 > > > > > > > -- ---------------------- [log in to unmask] Sunilantie 5 C 23 00720 Helsinki Finland tel. 040 - 724 92 13 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%