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Author: Ari Þorgilsson (fróði)
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a translation of two early Icelandic histories with introduction and notes.
Author: Ari Thorgilsson Frodi
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 89
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 0803233469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.
Author: Anna Catharina Horn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-05-10
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 3110695499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.
Author: Carol J. Clover
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501741659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe current revival of interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Even readers with a knowledge of Old Norse and Icelandic have found these subjects difficult to pursue, however, for up-to-date reference works in any language are few and none exist in English. To fill the gap, six distinguished scholars have contributed ambitious new essays to this volume. The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: Eddie and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Taken together, their judicious and attractively written essays-each with a full bibliography-make up the first book-length survey of Old Norse literature in English and a basic reference work that will stimulate research in these areas and help to open up the field to a wider academic readership.
Author: Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-09-21
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0521631122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
Author: Sverrir Jakobsson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-10-14
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 3030537978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made between sources emanating from different cultures, such as the Roman Empire, the Abbasid Caliphate and its successor states, the early kingdoms of the Rus and the high medieval Scandinavian kingdoms. A key element in the history of the Rus and the Varangians is the fashioning of identities and how different cultures define themselves in comparison and contrast with the other. This book offers a fresh and engaging view of these medieval sources, and a thorough reassessment of established historiographical grand narratives on Scandinavian peoples in the East.
Author: Medieval Academy of America
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780802038234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s, however, there was a distinct lack of scholarship in English that synthesized the critical trends and thinking in the field, so in 1985 Carol J. Clover and John Lindow brought together several of the most distinguished Old Norse scholars to contribute essays for a collection that would finally provide a comprehensive guide to the major genres of Old Norse-Icelandic literature." "The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: eddic and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Their essays, each with a full bibliography, make up this vital survey of Old Norse literature in English - a basic reference work that has stimulated much research and helped to open up the field to a wider academic readership." "This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and now, twenty years after its first appearance, it is being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field."
Author: Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1786736314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresentative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest literature. Here, Heather O'Donoghue skilfully examines the notions of time and the singular textual voice of the Sagas, offering a fresh perspective on the foundational texts of Old Norse and medieval Icelandic heritage. With a conspicuous absence of giants, dragons, and fairy tale magic, these sagas reflect a real-world society in transition, grappling with major new challenges of identity and development. As this book reveals, the stance of the narrator and the role of time – from the representation of external time passing to the audience's experience of moving through a narrative – are crucial to these stories. As such, Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga draws on modern narratological theory to explore the ways in which saga authors maintain the urgency and complexity of their material, handle the narrative and chronological line, and offer perceptive insights into saga society. In doing so, O'Donoghue presents a new poetics of family sagas and redefines the literary rhetoric of saga narratives.
