Egil S Saga

Author : Leifur Eiriksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141930527

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Egil's Saga by Leifur Eiriksson Pdf

Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from Norway, defend his honour against the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe, and fight for the English King Athelstan in his battles against Scotland. Exploring issues as diverse as the question of loyalty, the power of poetry, and the relationship between two brothers who love the same woman, Egil's Saga is a fascinating depiction of a deeply human character.

Author : Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442621244

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Egil, the Viking Poet by Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius Pdf

Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Egil's Saga by Anonim Pdf

Author : E. R. Eddison
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473212121

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Egil's Saga by E. R. Eddison Pdf

Egil's Saga is the tale of the long and brutal life of Egil Skallagrimsson, the tenth-century warrior-poet: a morally ambiguous character who was both the composer of intricately beautiful poetry and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. It recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from Norway, defend his honour against the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe, and fight for the English King Athelstan in his battles against Scotland. Translated from Icelandic by the great fantasist, E R Eddison, and accounted by many to be the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, Egil's Saga is a fascinating depiction of a deeply human character.

Author : John R. Kirby
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789691108

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Egil’s Saga: Traditional evidence for Brúnanburh compared to Literary, Historic and Archaeological Analyses by John R. Kirby Pdf

Was Egil’s Saga ‘written’ by Snorri Sturluson or by more than one person? Was it embellished by Snorri or others? Where did the Brúnanburh traditions come from? Is it accurate enough to be used as a historic source – a factual reference? This study aims to identify the incongruities within this saga demonstrating a correct analysis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Real Reads
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1906230870

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Egil's Saga by Anonim Pdf

Famed as both a warrior and a poet, Egil Skallagrimsson sets out to avenge his father's exile from Norway and defend his honor agains King Erik Bloodaxe.

Author : Snorri Sturluson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:22248782

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Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson Pdf

Author : Theodore Murdock Andersson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 080144408X

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The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280) by Theodore Murdock Andersson Pdf

Andersson introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1280, a crucial period that witnessed a gradual shift of emphasis from tales of adventure and personal distinction to the analysis of politics and history.

Author : Richard North
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9051833059

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Pagan Words and Christian Meanings by Richard North Pdf

An evolution of attitudes towards pre-Christian custom in , North-West Europe, as shown in early .medieval word-fields and texts in Old English and Old Icelandic literature, is represented in six variously focussed studies. The first three chapters, Pagan Words, form a network of research on pre-Christian concepts of mind and soul as they survived, still active, in Christianized heroic poetry. This was part of. the heathen matrix through which the first expressions of Christianity in Old English and Icelandic literature were possible. The second half of this book, Christian Meanings, shows .how the same Christian literature produced reinterpretations of paganism. The literary range stretches from the earliest epic formulae to the polished genealogical novels of thirteenth-century Iceland- An ancient tradition of augury is invoked by the poet of The Seafarerto illustrate a believer's passage to heaven. In Havamal, an artificially pagan creed of ritual teaching and responses is compiled in Iceland as an antiquarian entertainment, perhaps on a Christian model. The last chapter shows a variety of Christian interpretations of, paganism in four sagas of Icelanders from the early to late thirteenth century. Overall where paganism was concerned, the tendency was first to cast off a way of life, then later, when that life was lost forever, to reinvent it for the imagination.

Author : Patricia Pires Boulhosa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408017

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Icelanders and the Kings of Norway by Patricia Pires Boulhosa Pdf

The book discusses the relation between the Icelanders and the mediaeval Norwegian kings, as it appears in sagas and legal texts. By reassessing legal material and the sagas of Möðruvallabók, it finds the Icelanders partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power.

Author : Mikael Males
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110643930

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The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature by Mikael Males Pdf

This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period. The book argues that this cannot simply be explained as a result of strong local traditions, as in most previous scholarship. Thus, for instance, the author demonstrates that the mix of prose and poetry found in kings’ sagas and sagas of Icelanders is roughly contemporary to the written sagas. Similarly, he argues that treatises on poetics and mythology, including Snorri’s Edda, are new to the period, not only in their textual form, but also in their systematic mode of analysis. The book contends that what is truly new in these texts is the method of the authors, derived from Latin learning, but applied to traditional forms and motifs as encapsulated in the skaldic tradition. In this way, Christian Latin learning allowed for its perceived opposite, vernacular oral literature of pagan extraction, to reach full fruition and to largely replace the very literature which had made this process possible in the first place.

Author : Snorri Sturluson
Publisher : London : J.M. Dent & Sons ; Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015046463736

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Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson Pdf

Author : Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141991559

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The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson Pdf

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.

Author : Anders Andrén
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789189116818

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Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives by Anders Andrén Pdf

The study of Old Norse Religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia are investigated and interpreted by archaeologists, historians, art historians, historians of religion as well as scholars of literature, onomastics and Scandinavian studies. For obvious reasons, these studies belong to the main curricula in Scandinavia but are also carried out at many other universities in Europe, the United States and Australia a fact that is evident to any reader of this book. In order to bring this broad and varied field of research together, an international conference on Old Norse religion was held in Lund in June 2004. About two hundred delegates from more than fifteen countries took part. The intention was to gather researchers to encourage and improve scholarly exchange and dialogue, and Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives presents a selection of the proceedings from that conference. The 75 contributions elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory as well as the reception and present-day use of Old Norse religion. The main editors of this volume have directed the multidisciplinary research project Roads to Midgard since 2000. The project is based at Lund University and funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

Author : Ármann Jakobsson,Sverrir Jakobsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041474

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The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas by Ármann Jakobsson,Sverrir Jakobsson Pdf

The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.