Tellings

An author can either tell a story or tell of the telling of a story. The Prose Edda describes a telling of the Norse myths. Tellings relevant to this blog include:

the outer narrator and the Time Traveler;

 

Robert Anderson and Jack Havig;

 

the unnamed first person narrator and Peter Berg;

 

the van Rijn stories, "Esau" and "The Master Key";

 

Poul Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga, Chapter I is "Of The Telling";

 

Poul Anderson's and Mildred Downey Broxon's The Demon Of Scattery is told during a journey in Anderson's The Broken Sword.

 

Thus, a literary form with many applications.