Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe – serie
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Vikings Reimagined
Reception, Recovery, Engagement
Inbunden, 2019
1693 kr
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Rediscovering the Vikings explores the changing perception of Norse and Viking cultures across different cultural forms, and the complex legacy of the Vikings in the present day. Bringing together experts in literature, history and heritage engagement, this highly interdisciplinary collection aims …
Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic "Maríu Saga" in its Manuscript Contexts
Inbunden, 2021
1535 kr
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Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen 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 …
Development of Education in Medieval Iceland
Inbunden, 2021
1526 kr
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This book investigates the institutions and practices of education which lay behind medieval Icelandic literature, as well as behind many other aspects of medieval Icelandic culture and society. By bringing together a broad spectrum of sources, including sagas, law codes, and grammatical treatises, …
New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga
The historia mutila of Njála
Av Emily Lethbridge, Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
Inbunden, 2018
2322 kr
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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 …
Saga of the Jómsvikings
A Translation with Full Introduction
Inbunden, 2018
1422 kr
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Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast, launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth …
Saga of the Jómsvikings
A Translation for Students
Av Alison Finlay, Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir
Häftad, 2019
648 kr
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Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late …
Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150-1400
Av Ármann Jakobsson, Mariusz Mayburd
Inbunden, 2020
2406 kr
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Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry
A Narrative Study of Vafþrúðnismál
Inbunden, 2018
1619 kr
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The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, acting as a poetic framework and functioning as sacred myth. In this study, the author looks closely at the journey of the Norse god Óðinn to the …
Monsters in Society
Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland
Inbunden, 2019
2059 kr
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Employingliterary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historicalapproaches, Social Monstrosity and theSagas of the Icelanders reads themonsters of the Íslendingasögur intheir literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are notdistractions from feud and conflict, but …
