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Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442646216
With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlistThe Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.
Author : Kirsten Wolf,Natalie M. Van Deusen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487500740
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.
Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : Studies and Texts
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043261646
The legend of Saint Barbara is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts which are presented here on facing pages followed by an English translation. In addition, Wolf presents the Latin source text Passio Sancte Barbare . The texts are preceded by a lengthy and heavily annotated discussion of the legend's manuscripts, sources and content which also places the legend within the literary and historical context of Scandinavia and Iceland.
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514142
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 : Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000830156
This book provides an overview of medieval monasticism in Iceland, from its dawn to its downfall during the Reformation. Blending the evidence from material remains and written documents, Monastic Iceland highlights the realities of everyday life in the male and female monasteries operated in Iceland. The book describes the incorporation of monasticism into the Icelandic society, the alleged land of the Vikings, and thus how the monasteries coexisted with the natural and social environments on the island while keeping their general aims and objectives. The book shows that large social systems, such as monasticism, can cross social and natural borders without necessitating fundamental changes apart from those triggered by the constant coexistence of nature and culture inside the environment they exist within. The evidence provided debunks the myth that Icelandic monasteries, male or female, were isolated, silent places or simple cells functioning principally as retirement homes for aristocrats. To be a member of an ecclesiastical institution did not mean a quiet, secluded life without any outside interaction, but rather active participation in the surrounding community. The book is for researchers in archaeology, osteology, and medieval history, in addition to all those interested in monasticism and the medieval history of northern Europe.
Author : Stephen Pelle,Gottskálk Jensson,Haki Antonsson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 9781843846116
An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Author : Massimiliano Bampi,Carolyne Larrington,Sif Rikhardsdottir
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary form
ISBN : 9781843845645
A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.
Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783168699
The cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins was one of the most popular and relic-rich of all saints’ cults in the medieval period. This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays in English to explore the development and transmission of the legend of St Ursula in detail, considering a wealth of different sources including physical remains, literary texts, artistic representations and medieval music.
Author : Ole Widding,Hans Bekker-Nielsen,Laurence K.. Shook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:33067465
Author : Dario Bullitta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442698000
The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as Niðrstigningar saga. Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia. He argues that the saga is derived from a less popular twelfth-century French redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi, and that it bears the exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth-century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor, Peter Comestor and Peter Lombard in particular. By placing Niðrstigningar saga within the greater theological and homiletical context of early thirteenth-century Iceland, Bullitta successfully adds to our knowledge of the early reception of Latin biblical and apocryphal literature in medieval Iceland and provides a new critical edition and translation of the vernacular text.
Author : Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Ármann Jakobsson,Miriam Mayburd
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513862
This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
Author : Joanne Parker,Corinna Wagner
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199669509
Victorian medievalism physically transformed the streets of Britain It lay at the root of new laws and social policies It changed religious practices It deeply coloured national identities And it inspired art literature and music that remains influential to this day Sometimes driven by nostalgia but also often progressive and futurefacing this widereaching movement which reached its peak during the reign of Queen Victoria looked back to a range of different peoples and historical periods spanning a thousand years in order to inspire and vindicate cultural political and social change Medievalism was pervasive in Victorian literature with texts ranging from translated sagas to pseudomedieval devotional verse to tripledecker novels It became a dominant architectural mode transforming the English landscape with 75% of new churches built on a 'Gothic' rather than a classical model as well as museums railway stations town halls and pumping stations It was appealed to by both Whigs and Tories But it also permeated domestic life influencing the popularity of beards the naming of children and the design of homes and furniture This landmark study is an attempt to draw together for the first time every major aspect of Victorian medievalism and to examine the phenomenon from the perspective of the many disciplines to which it is relevant including intellectual history religious studies social history literary history art history and architecture Bringing together the expertise of 39 experts from different subject areas it reveals the pervasiveness and multifaceted character of the movement in the nineteenth century and explains its continuing legacy today
Author : Kristján Ahronson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442646179
"With Into the Ocean, Kristjan Ahronson makes two dramatic claims: that there were people in Iceland almost a century before Viking settlers first arrived c. AD 870, and that there was a tangible relationship between the early Christian 'Irish' communities of the Atlantic zone and the Scandinavians who followed them." - Book jacket.
Author : John McKinnel,l Donata Kick,John D. Shafer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442615885
Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell's work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and Christian world-views in the poems. Among the texts examined are Hávamál, which includes an elegantly cynical poem about Óðinn's sexual intrigues and a more mystical one about his self-sacrifice on the world-tree in order to gain magical wisdom; V?lundarkviða, which recounts an elvish smith's revenge for his captivity and maiming; and Hervararkviða, where the heroine bravely but foolishly raises her dead father to demand the deadly sword Tyrfingr from him. Originally published between 1988 and 2008, these twelve essays cover a wide range of mythological and heroic poems and have been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.
