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Author : Julia H. McGrew
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805733655
Glossary of nicknames and names of weapons: volume 1, pages 449-455.
Author : Magnús Magnússon
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : W. A. Craigie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107401723
A critical examination of sagas, and a consideration of the circumstances that fostered such an outpouring of literature in Iceland during the Middle Ages.
Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300036281
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1002841511
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105516124
Author : Costel Coroban
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527512061
This book provides an analysis of the ideology of power in Norway and Iceland as reflected in sources written during the period 1150-1250. The main focus is explaining the way that Kings’ power in Norway, and that of chieftains in Iceland, was idealised in important texts from the 12th and 13th centuries (Sverris saga, Konungs skuggsjá, Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, Íslendingabók, Egils saga, Laxdæla saga and Þórðar saga kakala). The originality of this work consists in the fact that it is the first monograph to comparatively analyse the ideology of power in Iceland, looking specifically at representations of king(s) and chieftains during the Civil Wars period, and compare the findings to those pertaining to Norway.
Author : Ármann Jakobsson,Sverrir Jakobsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041474
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 : Kenneth Hirth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108494700
This is the first book written that examines ancient and premodern economies from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.
Author : Oliver Southall
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781789147124
A cultural history of a reddish, much-loved shrub, sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this singular reddish, fruit shrub: a potent symbol of nostalgia on the one hand and of environmental activism on the other. Taking the reader on an eclectic journey across history, Rowan charts our changing relationships with nature and landscape, raising urgent questions about how we value and relate to the non-human world.
Author : Sturla Þórðarson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1021875422
Author : Julia H. McGrew,George R. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0829020365
Author : Peter Hallberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141975528
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.