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Author : John Hines,Desmond Slay
Publisher : Viking Society for Northern Research University College
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000063996056
Author : Leifur Eiriksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141930527
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 : John Tucker
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106008579283
A collection of essays on Icelandic sagas from the middle ages, which concern the earliest period of Icelandic history. Includes references.
Author : Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442621244
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 : Lars Lönnroth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520027086
Author : Leifur Eiricksson,Robert Cook
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141934860
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior with an aversion to killing, and the not-so-villainous Mord Valgardsson. Full of dreams, strange prophecies, violent power struggles, and fragile peace agreements, Njal's Saga tells the compelling story of a fifty-year blood feud that, despite its distance from us in time and place, is driven by passions familiar to us all. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction, chronology, index of characters, plot summary, explanatory notes, maps, and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786736314
Representative 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.
Author : Daniela Hahn,Andreas Schmidt
Publisher : Herbert Utz Verlag
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Good and evil in literature
ISBN : 9783831645572
This volume assembles 13 essays as the result of a workshop for international doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in Old Norse studies, which was held at the Institute for Nordic Philology at LMU in Munich in December 2015. The contributions’ focus lies on different aspects of ›bad‹ or ›evil‹ characters in saga literature, and they give testimony to the broad literary variety such figures display in Old Norse texts. The “Antagonists and Troublemakers in Old Norse Literature” are here explored in their diversity, ranging from their literary psychology to their characteristics which often challenge gender norms. The contributions discuss the narrative strategies of presenting these characters to the audience, both positively and negatively. Furthermore, they analyse how the central paradox of evil and its dependence on context is realised in various ways in Old Norse literature.
Author : Siân Grønlie,Carl Phelpstead
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501516603
This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O’Donoghue’s extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.
Author : S. Bruce,V. Wagner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230223110
This volume brings together essays on the relations between fiction and the economy, all established or emergent scholars from different fields of expertise. The essays range widely in their respective foci, extending beyond purely literary studies to encompass history, the history of language, studies in the visual arts, and philosophy.
Author : Patricia Pires Boulhosa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408017
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 : Lisa Hannett
Publisher : Thames & Hudson Australia
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760763244
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world. How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this groundbreaking work, Lisa Hannett lifts the veil on the untold stories of wives and mothers, girls and slaves, widows and witches who sailed, settled, suffered, survived - and thrived - in a society that largely catered to and memorialised men. Hannett presents the everyday experiences of a compelling cast of women, all of whom are resourceful and petty, hopeful and jealous, and as fabulous and flawed as we are today. Lisa Hannett is an award-winning Canadian-Australian writer and academic.
Author : Carl Phelpstead
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Theodore Murdock Andersson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 080144408X
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 : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226140926
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.
