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Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Books
ISBN : WISC:89087911517
Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Icelandic literature
ISBN : WISC:89001353812
Author : Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir,Emily Lethbridge
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580443067
Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occupies a special place in Icelandic cultural history. The manuscript tradition is exceptionally rich and extensive. The oldest extant manuscripts date to only a couple of decades after the saga’s composition in the late 13th century and the saga was subsequently copied by hand continuously up until the 20th century, even alongside the circulation of printed text editions in latter centuries. The manuscript corpus as a whole has great socio-historical value, showcasing the myriad ways in which generations of Icelanders interpreted the saga and took an active part in its transmission; the manuscripts are also valuable sources for evidence of linguistic change and other phenomena. The essays in this volume present new research and a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the Njáls saga manuscripts. Many of the authors took part in the international research project "The Variance of Njáls saga" which was funded by the Icelandic Research Council from 2011-2013.
Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Manuscripts, Old Norse
ISBN : 0686917685
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501518534
The Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu saga survives in nineteen manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. The present study, then, restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the
Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141933269
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 : Stefan Drechsler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Peter Hallberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803250827
In this stimulating and reliable introduction to the Icelandic saga, Peter Hallberg correctly designates the genre as "Scandinavia's sole, collective original contribution to world literature." These prose narratives dating from the thirteenth century are characterized by a psychological realism which sets them apart from all other contemporary forms of European literature. Mr. Hallberg's emphasis is on the branch of saga literature which deals with the native heroes--with the settlement of Iceland by Norse chieftains and with the lives of these settlers and their descendants. After disposing of the controversial "free-prose" theory of the origin and transmission of these stories, the author treats such problems as style and character portrayal, dreams and destinies, values and ideals, humor and irony. Several of the major sagas are studied in some detail. The concluding discussion concerns the decline of saga writing and the role played by the Sagas in modern Scandinavian life and literature. Paul Schach's introduction and copious annotation furnish additional background material and bibliographical references to English translations of the individual sagas and to significant studies on the major problems of saga research. Although intended primarily for the layman, The Icelandic Saga is of value to the specialist since it judiciously evaluates and incorporates the revolutionary findings of the so-called "Icelandic school" of saga study.
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Magnus Magnusson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750981835
Magnus Magnusson relates the world-famous Icelandic sagas to the spectacular living landscapes of today, taking the reader on a literary tour of the mountains, valleys, and fjords where the heroes and heroines of the sagas lived out their eventful lives. He also tells the story of the first Viking settler, Ingolfur Anarson.
Author : Ármann Jakobsson,Sverrir Jakobsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041467
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.
Author : CARL. PHELPSTEAD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813080681
Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, 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.
Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : D.M. White
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953035271
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.
