Bard Of Iceland

Author : Dick Ringler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299177203

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Bard of Iceland by Dick Ringler Pdf

Bard of Iceland makes available for the first time in any language other than Icelandic an extensive selection of works by Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), the most important poet of modern Iceland. Jónas was also Iceland's first professionally trained geologist and an active contributor in a number of other scientific fields: geography, botany, zoology, and archaeology. He played a key role as well in Iceland's struggle to gain independence from Denmark. "Descriptive power and fullness of spirit were the hallmarks of his soul," wrote a contemporary admirer. Dick Ringler, one of the premier scholars of Icelandic literature in the world, offers a substantial biography of Jónas, a representative selection of his most important poems, and some of his prose work in science and belles lettres. Ringler also provides extended commentaries and an essay on Icelandic prosody. The poems are translated into English equivalents of their original complex meters in Icelandic and Danish. As a poet Jónas was intimately familiar with his nation's medieval literary inheritance--the sagas and eddas--and also with the groundbreaking work of contemporary German and Danish Romanticism (Chamisso, Heine, Oehlenschläger). A master of poetic form, Jónas not only exploited and enlarged the possibilities of traditional eddic and skaldic meters, but introduced the sonnet, triolet stanza, terza and ottava rima, and blank verse into the Icelandic metrical repertory.

Author : Dick Ringler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poets, Icelandic
ISBN : 9979331119

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Bard of Iceland by Dick Ringler Pdf

Author : Árni Heimir Ingólfsson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253044082

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Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland by Árni Heimir Ingólfsson Pdf

A study of the influential Icelandic composer’s career and his work. In Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, Árni Heimir Ingólfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic career of Iceland’s iconic composer. Leifs (1899–1968) was the first Icelander to devote himself fully to composition at a time when a local music scene was only beginning to take form. He was a fervent nationalist in his art, fashioning an idiosyncratic and uncompromising “Icelandic” sound from traditions of vernacular music with the aim to legitimize Iceland as an independent, culturally empowered nation. In addition to exploring Leifs’s career, Ingólfsson provides detailed descriptions of Leifs’s major works and their cultural contexts. Leifs’s music was inspired by the Icelandic landscape and includes auditory depictions of volcanos, geysers, and waterfalls. The raw quality of his orchestral music is frequently enhanced by an expansive percussion section, including anvils, stones, sirens, bells, ships’ chains, shotguns, and cannons. Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Leifs’s music has been rediscovered in recent years and hailed as a singular and deeply original contribution to twentieth-century music. Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland enriches our understanding and appreciation of Leifs and his music by exploring the political, literary and environmental contexts that influenced his work. “Composers of fearsome originality seldom have an easy path in the world. Jón Leifs, who translated the landscapes and legends of Iceland into sound, comes vividly to life in this brilliant, panoramic biography, his myriad personal and political conflicts delineated with clarity and candor. A major twentieth-century figure at last receives his due.” —Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise “Jón Leifs was the first major Icelandic composer and it is insane that most of his pieces were not performed or recorded until recently. His works were almost just a myth to us Icelanders and therefore this book is so magnificently important. . . . This book is incredibly well written and Árni Heimir’s analysis of the music is deeply satisfying. I listened to each work as it was being discussed, which turned the experience from black and white to color! An extraordinary achievement!” —Björk, singer/songwriter

Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803233461

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A History of Icelandic Literature by Daisy L. Neijmann Pdf

As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.

Author : Ken Beckwith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9798210904676

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The Story of Bard by Ken Beckwith Pdf

Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (14th c. Middle Icelandic) or Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss ok Gests is a late saga of Iceland with legendary elements. It falls into two sections, one about Bárðr and the other about his son, Gestr; the first part takes place in Snæfellsnes in Iceland. Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss is a relatively late Íslendingasaga, probably dating to the early 14th century. It is preserved in 16th and 17th century paper and vellum manuscripts and one fragment of about 1400. The saga falls into two sections that were distinguished in the early 18th century and are probably by different authors.

Author : Meredith Mansfield
Publisher : Meredith Mansfield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Bard's Gift by Meredith Mansfield Pdf

The Reluctant Story-Teller: Sixteen-year-old Astrid keeps mostly to herself, finding companionship in the stories her grandmother used to tell. She's too shy even to talk in front of Torolf, the young man she secretly dreams of. Then the Norse god of eloquence appears in Astrid's dreams and forces her to drink the Mead of Poetry. Suddenly, she's compelled to tell her stories. In public. Even in front of Torolf. Astrid is meant to use these stories to guide her people from starvation in Greenland to a better future in Markland. A place legends claim is the abode of dragons. But not all of her fierce and independent people are willing to follow a mere girl, even the chieftain's daughter--especially when she counsels peace. Some have other plans for the new land and want to use Astrid and her gift as a tool. The Inventive Young Man Who Loves Her: Torolf never dreamed that quiet Astrid could choose him. Now he's stranded in Iceland as she sails in the opposite direction. To attain the promise of a future with Astrid, he'll have to attempt the impossible--sailing alone across the North Atlantic. Together, they might defy the plans the gods have made for them and change the fate of more than just their own people. Norse gods, Thunderbird, Norse Sagas, Norse mythology, Iceland, Greenland colon, Vinland, Markland, Noblebright

Author : Ari Thorgilsson (the Learned)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Iceland
ISBN : OXFORD:N10729810

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The Book of the Settlement of Iceland by Ari Thorgilsson (the Learned) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108052498

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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles by Anonim Pdf

This four-volume set (1887-94) includes sagas of Orkney and of King Hákon Hákonarson of Norway, in Old Norse and English translation.

Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00118916

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Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles by Guðbrandur Vigfússon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141975528

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Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland by Anonim Pdf

Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains and avenging sons do battle with axes, words and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages and religious conversions in medieval Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland's oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation.

Author : Ari Thorgilsson (the Learned)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Iceland
ISBN : PRNC:32101071956799

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The Book of the Settlement of Iceland by Ari Thorgilsson (the Learned) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024397807

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The Story of Burnt Njal, Or Life in Iceland at the End of the Tenth Century. From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga. By G. W. Dasent. With an Introduction, Maps, and Plans by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara Sjoholm
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580056052

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The Pirate Queen by Barbara Sjoholm Pdf

The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the notorious Grace O’Malley, scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish clan chieftain and pirate queen was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, and a figure whose life is the stuff of myth. Regularly raiding English ships caught off Ireland’s west coast, she commanded two hundred men (and a couple of husbands), and acquired lands and castles that still dot the Irish coastline today. But Grace O’Malley was not alone—especially in the waters of the North Atlantic, where author Barbara Sjoholm traveled through coastal communities and seafaring ports to collect these little-known stories. Since ancient times, women have rowed and sailed, commanded and fished, built boats, and owned fleets. The Pirate Queen brings some of these extraordinary heroines back to life, including Leif Eiríksson’s explorer sister Freydís, and Trouser-Beret, the Norwegian fishing captain. Sjoholm takes readers on an unforgettable journey from the wild Irish coast through the lonely Shetlands and Faroes to the haunting fjords of Iceland and Norway, in this meticulously researched, colorfully written, and truly original work.

Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141933269

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The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely Pdf

In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141961422

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Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Anonim Pdf

Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by his powerful neighbour, and Thorstein the Staff-Struck, which describes an ageing warrior's struggle to settle into a peaceful rural community. Others focus on the adventures of Icelanders abroad, including the compelling Audun's Story, which depicts a farmhand's pilgrimage to Rome. These fascinating tales deal with powerful human emotions, suffering and dignity at a time of profound transition, when traditional ideals were gradually yielding to a more peaceful pastoral lifestyle.