The Manuscripts Of Iceland

Author : Gisli Sigur©ʻsson,Vésteinn Ólason,Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi
Publisher : University of Iceland Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Books
ISBN : 997981988X

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The Manuscripts of Iceland by Gisli Sigur©ʻsson,Vésteinn Ólason,Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi Pdf

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 : Stefan Drechsler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Icelandic
ISBN : 2503589022

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Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland by Stefan Drechsler Pdf

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 : 170 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Books
ISBN : WISC:89087911517

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Icelandic Manuscripts by Jónas Kristjánsson Pdf

Author : Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir,Emily Lethbridge
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580443067

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New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir,Emily Lethbridge Pdf

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 : 104 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Icelandic literature
ISBN : WISC:89001353812

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Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts by Jónas Kristjánsson Pdf

Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Books
ISBN : 9979804823

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Icelandic Manuscripts by Jónas Kristjánsson Pdf

Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Manuscripts, Old Norse
ISBN : 0686917685

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Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts by Jónas Kristjánsson Pdf

Author : Åslaug Ommundsen,Tuomas Heikkilä
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317086734

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Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments by Åslaug Ommundsen,Tuomas Heikkilä Pdf

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.

Author : R. Evans,G. Marchal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230283107

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The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States by R. Evans,G. Marchal Pdf

An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.

Author : Þjóðólfr ór Hvini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Old Norse poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106014678483

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The Haustlǫng of Þjóðólfr of Hvinir by Þjóðólfr ór Hvini Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004465510

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Dominican Resonances in Medieval Iceland by Anonim Pdf

This book explores the life and times of Jón Halldórsson, bishop of Skálholt (1322–39), a Dominican who had studied the liberal arts and canon law in Paris and Bologna, and provides a snapshot with wider implications for understanding of medieval literacy.

Author : Winokur Sara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 173345280X

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Double Blind by Winokur Sara Pdf

The International Mystery Double Blind: The Icelandic Manuscript Murders is a wild ride through the cultural landscape of Iceland, from rural farmsteads to icy fjords to the high-tech world of DNA forensics. A young boy disappears in the chill of North Iceland. Twenty years later, a mysterious poem lands on the desk of his twin sister Brynja, a forensic geneticist, and rekindles her hopes that her brother might be alive. As Brynja unravels the clues, more poems arrive, each bearing dire consequences for those who receive them: the guard of the medieval manuscript of Icelandic sagas that may have the answer to her burning question, the prime minister's secretary, the local pastor. Is the poet out to stop Brynja from finding her brother and shut down her access to the DNA database? Or is the verse maker simply a psychopath copycat killer? Fighting the visual auras that have plagued her since childhood and now threaten everything she holds dear, Brynja must summon the strength to navigate the twisted labyrinth of the poet's mind and confront the dark secret buried in her family's past.

Author : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Manuscripts, Old Norse
ISBN : OCLC:233807053

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Icelandic Manuscripts by Halldór Hermannsson Pdf

Author : Margrét Eggertsdóttir,Matthew James Driscoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Books
ISBN : 8763545551

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Mirrors of Virtue by Margrét Eggertsdóttir,Matthew James Driscoll Pdf

As a departure from previous practice, this volume of 'Opuscula' presents ten articles on a single theme: manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland, the period between the advent of print in the early sixteenth century to the establishment of the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service in the early twentieth. Throughout this period, manuscript transmission continued to exist side by side with print, the two media serving different, but overlapping, audiences and transmitting different, but overlapping, types of texts. The authors take their point of departure in recent developments within literary and cultural studies which focus on the artefactuality of texts and the social, historical and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed. The volumes title, 'Mirrors of virtue', refers not only to the popular late medieval and early modern genre of exemplary and/or admonitory mirror literature several examples of which are discussed but also to the idea that both manuscripts and printed books are reflections of virtue in a broader sense.

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426314

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Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness Pdf

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman. In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Laxness creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page. Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Ball is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.