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Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Books
ISBN : WISC:89087911517
Author : Gisli Sigur©ʻsson,Vésteinn Ólason,Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi
Publisher : University of Iceland Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Books
ISBN : 997981988X
A comprehensive and profusely illustrated accompaniment to the exhibition The Manuscripts of Iceland which was organised by the Arni Magnusson Institute and opened in the Culture House in Reykjavik on October 5, 2002. In this collection of articles scholars present the story of Icelandic manuscripts, their medieval origins, the literature they contain and its influence up to the present day. The meeting of written Christian and classical culture with the rich oral traditions in Iceland brought forth a remarkable literary flowering, an eloquent source of information about pagan Scandinavian culture and thought. In time this literature came to inspire the sense of national character in the Nordic countries and exerted notable influence in the German- and English- speaking worlds. This book is a tribute to the central role that medieval Icelandic literature played in forging national identities in Northern Europe.
Author : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : LCCN:29014127
Author : Gillian Fellows-Jensen,Peter Springborg
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 8770230722
Contents: R.I. Page: The research group on manuscript evidence: Some approaches and discoveries; Nicholas Hadgraft: The significance of the archaeology of the book in the context of conservation work; Søren Carlsen: aspects of documentation and conservation; Peter Springborg: The work of conservation at the Arnamagnæan Institute; Sigurgeir Steingrimsson: The care of manuscripts in the Arni Magnusson Institute in Iceland; Ögmundur Helgason: A brief account of the conservation of manuscripts and old printed books in the National Library of Iceland; Programme for the seminar; List of participants; Colour plates; Illustrations; Index of manuscript.
Author : Stefan Drechsler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Icelandic
ISBN : 2503589022
This book examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Scandinavian artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1340?1400), the Augustinian monastery of Helgafell became the most important centre of illuminated manuscript production in western Iceland. By conducting interdisciplinary research that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript studies, codicology, and Scandinavian history, this book explores both the illuminated manuscripts produced at Helgafell and the cultural and historical setting of the manuscript production.00Equally, the book explores the broader European contexts of manuscript production at Helgafell, comparing the similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence of Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, northern France, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in western Norway. The book proposes that most of these workshops are related to ecclesiastical networks, as well as secular trade in the North Sea, which became an important economic factor to western Icelandic society in the fourteenth century. The book thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. It offers a detailed account of this cultural site in relation to its scribal and artistic connections with other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.
Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Icelandic literature
ISBN : WISC:89001353812
Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139492645
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.
Author : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011869968
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514128
Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Author : Carol J. Clover,John Lindow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501741654
The 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 : Gillian Fellows Jensen,Peter Springborg
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8763505541
Care & Conservation of Manuscripts, Volume 9 - Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen, 14th to 15th April 2005
Author : Gillian Fellows-Jensen,Peter Springborg
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 8770230749
Author : Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802038239
"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 : Carl Phelpstead
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813057569
Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings of select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre’s various source traditions and thematic concerns interact. Including an overview of the history of English translations that shows how they have been stimulated and shaped by ideas about identity, and featuring a glossary of critical terms, this book is an essential resource for students of the literary form. A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh
Author : Þjóðólfr ór Hvini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Old Norse poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106014678483
One of the earliest preserved Skaldic poems, which were based on highly complex rules of alliteration and metre, this 10th-century work praises the gift of a painted shield depicting mythological scenes. This is a bilingual edition of the poem.
