Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware: namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mid-eleventh centuries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-15
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Beyond Medieval Europe
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Arc Humanities Press
ISBN:9781641890267

Utforska kategorier

Sagor inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Tatjana N. Jackson is the leading Russian Scandinavianist and author of more than ten books and three hundred papers on Russian-Scandinavian relations of the Middle Ages.

Recensioner i media

The Quellenwert of the Icelandic sagas has long aroused controversy among scholars, especially between historians and those specializing in philology or literature.[...] Fortunately for historians, Tatjana Jackson [...] endorses the more balanced position of T. M. Andersson, Gísli Sigurðsson and others concerning the interplay between the spoken and the written word, whereby writers of sagas drew upon both components. And she approaches the Old Norse Kings’ Sagas in light of Aron Gurevich’s dictum: it is “not a question of whether to use the sagas ..., but of how.”

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Sources, Aims, ConventionsPart 1: Eastern Europe in the Old Norse WeltbildChapter 1: Austrhálfa on the “mental map” of medieval ScandinaviansChapter 2: Austrvegr and Other aust-place-namesChapter 3: Austmarr, “the Eastern Sea”, the Baltic SeaChapter 4: Traversing Eastern EuropeChapter 5: East European riversChapter 6: Garðar/Garðaríki as a designation of Old Rus’Chapter 7: Hólmgarðr (Novgorod), and Kænugarðr (Kiev)Chapter 8: Aldeigja/Aldeigjuborg, “Old Ladoga”Chapter 9: “Hǫfuð garðar” in Hauksbók, and Some Other Old Russian TownsChapter 10: BjarmalandPart 2: Four Norwegian kings in Old Rus’Chapter 1: Óláfr TryggvasonChapter 2: Óláfr HaraldssonChapter 3: Magnús ÓláfssonChapter 4: Haraldr SigurðarsonBibliographyIndex