The Saga Of Gisli

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Icelandic fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044965239

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The Saga of Gisli by Anonim Pdf

"The Saga of Gisli" was written in the early thirteenth century, and offers an imaginative reconstruction of a story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about 950 A.D. Gisli is outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, spends a decade hiding in remote northwest Iceland, and is caught and killed. The heart of the saga, however, is the examination of the intricate emotional bonds and the laws that attempt to regulate them, as existing in a world governed finally by inevitable fate. This ancient example of a type of literature sprung from a type of community readers can barely imagine, is one of the most memorable of all the Icelandic sagas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141941899

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Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri by Anonim Pdf

These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen the new social order. Taken together these sagas reveal the richness and variety of the saga tradition.

Author : Sir George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Gisli Súrsson, d. 978?
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018626457

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The Story of Gisli the Outlaw by Sir George Webbe Dasent Pdf

Author : George Johnston,Peter Foote
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802062199

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The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw by George Johnston,Peter Foote Pdf

The Saga of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century. It offers an imaginative reconstruction of the story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about AD 960. Soon after 960 Gisli, the central figure, was outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, and then, for thirteen years or more, he lived in hiding in remote parts of the northwest of Iceland until he was finally caught and killed by his enemies. Around this imaginative core the author has spun a web of conflicting passions - love, hare and jealousy between man and wife, brother and sister, brother-in-law - intricate emotional bonds which are here seen ironically patterned against a background of inevitable fate. Gisli, the hero, is portrayed not only as a man of strength and courage, but also a poet and dreamer, tormented in his outlawry by nightmarish visions which seem gradualy to sap his will to resist. The author's probing into the emotional depths of his characters, the superbly effective architecture of his narrative leading to the central climax, his sense of the dramatic, and his cool, compelling style all combine to make this one of the most memorable of all the Icelandic sagas.

Author : Sir George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024301061

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The Story of Gisli the Outlaw by Sir George Webbe Dasent Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Viking Society for Northern Research University College
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Old Norse prose literature
ISBN : 0903521660

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Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas by Anonim Pdf

Here are three epic stories of exile and adventure: the heroes condemned to wander their lands in expiation of crimes committed in honour's name. The book includes an introduction, notes, a text summary and a chronology of early Icelandic literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:270857141

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The Saga of Gisli by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gísli Sigurðsson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015059175995

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The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition by Gísli Sigurðsson Pdf

This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, G sli Sigur sson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures. Sigur sson examines how orally trained lawspeakers regarded the emergent written culture, especially in light of the fact that the writing down of the law in the early twelfth century undermined their social status. Part II considers characters, genealogies, and events common to several sagas from the east of Iceland between which a written link cannot be established. Part III explores the immanent or mental map provided to the listening audience of the location of Vinland by the sagas about the Vinland voyages. Finally, this volume focuses on how accepted foundations for research on medieval texts are affected if an underlying oral tradition (of the kind we know from the modern field work) is assumed as part of their cultural background. This point is emphasized through the examination of parallel passages from two sagas and from mythological overlays in an otherwise secular text.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141975528

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Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141991559

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The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson Pdf

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.

Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141933269

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The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Gísla saga
ISBN : OCLC:63265971

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The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Fidler,Kari Gislason
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460708200

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Saga Land by Richard Fidler,Kari Gislason Pdf

'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that remote island in the Middle Ages.These are tales of blood feuds, of dangerous women, and people who are compelled to kill the ones they love the most. The sagas are among the greatest stories ever written, but the identity of their authors is largely unknown. Together, Richard and Kári travel across Iceland, to the places where the sagas unfolded a thousand years ago. They cross fields, streams and fjords to immerse themselves in the folklore of this fiercely beautiful island. And there is another mission: to resolve a longstanding family mystery - a gift from Kari's Icelandic father that might connect him to the greatest of the saga authors.

Author : Gísli Sigurðsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Celts
ISBN : UOM:39015029759787

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Gaelic Influence in Iceland by Gísli Sigurðsson Pdf

Author : Anonymous,George W. Dasent,Volundr Lars Agnarsson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1481803069

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Gísla Saga Súrssonar by Anonymous,George W. Dasent,Volundr Lars Agnarsson Pdf

This story is about Gisli, a tragic hero who must kill one of his brothers-in-law to avenge another brother-in-law. He must endure as his passions of love and hate unfold in this classic tale of divided loyalties. Gisli is outlawed and forced to stay on the run for thirteen years before he is finally hunted down!