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Bard of Iceland

Author : Dick Ringler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299177201
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Bard of Iceland written by Dick Ringler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bard of Iceland makes available for the first time in any language other than Icelandic an extensive selection of works by Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), the most important poet of modern Iceland. Jónas was also Iceland's first professionally trained geologist and an active contributor in a number of other scientific fields: geography, botany, zoology, and archaeology. He played a key role as well in Iceland's struggle to gain independence from Denmark. "Descriptive power and fullness of spirit were the hallmarks of his soul," wrote a contemporary admirer. Dick Ringler, one of the premier scholars of Icelandic literature in the world, offers a substantial biography of Jónas, a representative selection of his most important poems, and some of his prose work in science and belles lettres. Ringler also provides extended commentaries and an essay on Icelandic prosody. The poems are translated into English equivalents of their original complex meters in Icelandic and Danish. As a poet Jónas was intimately familiar with his nation's medieval literary inheritance--the sagas and eddas--and also with the groundbreaking work of contemporary German and Danish Romanticism (Chamisso, Heine, Oehlenschläger). A master of poetic form, Jónas not only exploited and enlarged the possibilities of traditional eddic and skaldic meters, but introduced the sonnet, triolet stanza, terza and ottava rima, and blank verse into the Icelandic metrical repertory.

Bard of Iceland

Author : Dick Ringler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789979331117
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Bard of Iceland written by Dick Ringler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland

Author : Árni Heimir Ingólfsson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253044081
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland written by Árni Heimir Ingólfsson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the influential Icelandic composer’s career and his work. In Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, Árni Heimir Ingólfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic career of Iceland’s iconic composer. Leifs (1899–1968) was the first Icelander to devote himself fully to composition at a time when a local music scene was only beginning to take form. He was a fervent nationalist in his art, fashioning an idiosyncratic and uncompromising “Icelandic” sound from traditions of vernacular music with the aim to legitimize Iceland as an independent, culturally empowered nation. In addition to exploring Leifs’s career, Ingólfsson provides detailed descriptions of Leifs’s major works and their cultural contexts. Leifs’s music was inspired by the Icelandic landscape and includes auditory depictions of volcanos, geysers, and waterfalls. The raw quality of his orchestral music is frequently enhanced by an expansive percussion section, including anvils, stones, sirens, bells, ships’ chains, shotguns, and cannons. Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Leifs’s music has been rediscovered in recent years and hailed as a singular and deeply original contribution to twentieth-century music. Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland enriches our understanding and appreciation of Leifs and his music by exploring the political, literary and environmental contexts that influenced his work. “Composers of fearsome originality seldom have an easy path in the world. Jón Leifs, who translated the landscapes and legends of Iceland into sound, comes vividly to life in this brilliant, panoramic biography, his myriad personal and political conflicts delineated with clarity and candor. A major twentieth-century figure at last receives his due.” —Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise “Jón Leifs was the first major Icelandic composer and it is insane that most of his pieces were not performed or recorded until recently. His works were almost just a myth to us Icelanders and therefore this book is so magnificently important. . . . This book is incredibly well written and Árni Heimir’s analysis of the music is deeply satisfying. I listened to each work as it was being discussed, which turned the experience from black and white to color! An extraordinary achievement!” —Björk, singer/songwriter

A History of Icelandic Literature

Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803233469
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A History of Icelandic Literature written by Daisy L. Neijmann and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.

Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141975520
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Story of Bard

Author : Ken Beckwith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Bard written by Ken Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (14th c. Middle Icelandic) or Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss ok Gests is a late saga of Iceland with legendary elements. It falls into two sections, one about Bárðr and the other about his son, Gestr; the first part takes place in Snæfellsnes in Iceland. Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss is a relatively late Íslendingasaga, probably dating to the early 14th century. It is preserved in 16th and 17th century paper and vellum manuscripts and one fragment of about 1400. The saga falls into two sections that were distinguished in the early 18th century and are probably by different authors.

The Sagas of the Icelanders

Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141933267
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Sagas of the Icelanders written by Jane Smilely and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Bard's Gift

Author : Meredith Mansfield
Publisher : Meredith Mansfield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bard's Gift written by Meredith Mansfield and published by Meredith Mansfield. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reluctant Story-Teller: Sixteen-year-old Astrid keeps mostly to herself, finding companionship in the stories her grandmother used to tell. She's too shy even to talk in front of Torolf, the young man she secretly dreams of. Then the Norse god of eloquence appears in Astrid's dreams and forces her to drink the Mead of Poetry. Suddenly, she's compelled to tell her stories. In public. Even in front of Torolf. Astrid is meant to use these stories to guide her people from starvation in Greenland to a better future in Markland. A place legends claim is the abode of dragons. But not all of her fierce and independent people are willing to follow a mere girl, even the chieftain's daughter--especially when she counsels peace. Some have other plans for the new land and want to use Astrid and her gift as a tool. The Inventive Young Man Who Loves Her: Torolf never dreamed that quiet Astrid could choose him. Now he's stranded in Iceland as she sails in the opposite direction. To attain the promise of a future with Astrid, he'll have to attempt the impossible--sailing alone across the North Atlantic. Together, they might defy the plans the gods have made for them and change the fate of more than just their own people. Norse gods, Thunderbird, Norse Sagas, Norse mythology, Iceland, Greenland colon, Vinland, Markland, Noblebright

The Book of the Settlement of Iceland

Author : Ari Thorgilsson (the Learned)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Settlement of Iceland written by Ari Thorgilsson (the Learned) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108052495
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume set (1887-94) includes sagas of Orkney and of King Hákon Hákonarson of Norway, in Old Norse and English translation.

Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles

Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles written by Guðbrandur Vigfússon and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of the Settlement of Iceland

Author : Ari Thorgilsson (the Learned)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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The Story of Burnt Njal, Or Life in Iceland at the End of the Tenth Century. From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga. By G. W. Dasent. With an Introduction, Maps, and Plans

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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The Pirate Queen

Author : Barbara Sjoholm
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580056059
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Pirate Queen written by Barbara Sjoholm and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the notorious Grace O’Malley, scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish clan chieftain and pirate queen was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, and a figure whose life is the stuff of myth. Regularly raiding English ships caught off Ireland’s west coast, she commanded two hundred men (and a couple of husbands), and acquired lands and castles that still dot the Irish coastline today. But Grace O’Malley was not alone—especially in the waters of the North Atlantic, where author Barbara Sjoholm traveled through coastal communities and seafaring ports to collect these little-known stories. Since ancient times, women have rowed and sailed, commanded and fished, built boats, and owned fleets. The Pirate Queen brings some of these extraordinary heroines back to life, including Leif Eiríksson’s explorer sister Freydís, and Trouser-Beret, the Norwegian fishing captain. Sjoholm takes readers on an unforgettable journey from the wild Irish coast through the lonely Shetlands and Faroes to the haunting fjords of Iceland and Norway, in this meticulously researched, colorfully written, and truly original work.

The Story of Burnt Njal (Icelandic Saga)

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Burnt Njal (Icelandic Saga) written by Anonymous and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Burnt Njal is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020. The saga deals with a process of blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth, showing how the requirements of honor could lead to minor slights spiraling into destructive and prolonged bloodshed. Insults where a character's manhood is called into question are especially prominent and may reflect an author critical of an overly restrictive ideal of masculinity. Another characteristic of the narrative is the presence of omens and prophetic dreams. It is disputed whether this reflects a fatalistic outlook on the part of the author. The principal characters in the saga are the friends Njáll Þorgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnar Hámundarson, a formidable warrior. Gunnar's wife instigates a feud that leads to the death of many characters over several decades including the killing by fire of the eponymous "Burnt Njáll".

The story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga

Author : Sir George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga written by Sir George Webbe Dasent and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an Epic Journey with 'The Story of Burnt Njal' from the Icelandic Njáls Saga Prepare to be transported to the rugged landscapes of medieval Iceland with 'The Story of Burnt Njal' from the Icelandic Njáls Saga. In this epic tale of honor, revenge, and destiny, readers are invited to immerse themselves in the rich tapestry of Norse culture and witness the timeless struggle between loyalty and betrayal. Experience the Saga of Njáls 'The Story of Burnt Njal' is a saga of epic proportions, chronicling the lives of the titular character, Njal, and his friends and enemies in the harsh world of medieval Iceland. Set against the backdrop of feuds, battles, and political intrigue, the saga explores themes of honor, justice, and the complexities of human relationships. With its vivid descriptions, memorable characters, and intricate plotlines, 'The Story of Burnt Njal' offers readers a captivating glimpse into the world of medieval Iceland and the lives of its inhabitants. From epic battles to intimate moments of love and loss, the saga is a testament to the enduring power of storytelling. Explore Norse Culture and Tradition More than just a gripping tale of adventure and intrigue, 'The Story of Burnt Njal' provides readers with a window into the rich cultural heritage of medieval Iceland. Through its detailed descriptions of customs, rituals, and beliefs, the saga offers insights into the values and traditions that shaped Norse society. From the intricacies of Icelandic law to the rituals of hospitality and feasting, 'The Story of Burnt Njal' paints a vivid portrait of a bygone era and invites readers to delve into the complexities of Norse culture and tradition. Whether you're a history buff, a fan of epic literature, or simply enjoy a good story, the saga has something to offer. Why 'The Story of Burnt Njal' Is a Must-Read for Literature Enthusiasts: Epic Adventure: Lose yourself in the gripping tale of 'The Story of Burnt Njal,' where honor, revenge, and destiny collide in a saga of epic proportions. Cultural Insight: Explore the rich tapestry of Norse culture and tradition as depicted in the pages of this timeless saga, gaining insights into the values and beliefs of medieval Iceland. Memorable Characters: Meet a cast of unforgettable characters, from the noble Njal to the cunning Gunnar, whose actions shape the destiny of Iceland and its people. Perfect Gift: Share the excitement and intrigue of 'The Story of Burnt Njal' with friends and family by gifting them a copy of the saga. It's the perfect choice for anyone who enjoys epic tales of adventure and heroism.Don't miss your chance to embark on an epic journey with 'The Story of Burnt Njal' from the Icelandic Njáls Saga. Grab your copy today and prepare to be swept away by the drama, intrigue, and timeless beauty of this medieval masterpiece.

Independent People

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679767924
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Independent People written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-01-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.