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Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Jónas Kristjánsson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1929 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gisli Sigur©ʻsson
Publisher : University of Iceland Press
ISBN 13 : 9789979819882
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (198 download)
Download or read book The Manuscripts of Iceland written by Gisli Sigur©ʻsson and published by University of Iceland Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9782503589022
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland written by Stefan Drechsler and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Þjóðólfr ór Hvini
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Haustlǫng of Þjóðólfr of Hvinir written by Þjóðólfr ór Hvini and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts written by Jónas Kristjánsson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781501518539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu Saga in Its Manuscript Contexts written by Daniel C. Najork and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu saga survives in nineteen manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. The present study, then, restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514121
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts written by Daniel C. Najork and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those 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 manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139492640
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga written by Margaret Clunies Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.
Author : Rory McTurk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140513738X
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture written by Rory McTurk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culturedemonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language andculture from medieval to modern times. Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in thefield Reflects current debates among Old Norse-Icelandicscholars Pays attention to previously neglected areas of study, such asthe sagas of Icelandic bishops and the fantasy sagas Looks at the ways Old Norse-Icelandic literature is used bymodern writers, artists and film directors, both within and outsideScandinavia Sets Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in its widercultural context
Author : Gillian Fellows-Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788770230728
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Care and Conservation of Manuscripts written by Gillian Fellows-Jensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: R.I. Page: The research group on manuscript evidence: Some approaches and discoveries; Nicholas Hadgraft: The significance of the archaeology of the book in the context of conservation work; Søren Carlsen: aspects of documentation and conservation; Peter Springborg: The work of conservation at the Arnamagnæan Institute; Sigurgeir Steingrimsson: The care of manuscripts in the Arni Magnusson Institute in Iceland; Ögmundur Helgason: A brief account of the conservation of manuscripts and old printed books in the National Library of Iceland; Programme for the seminar; List of participants; Colour plates; Illustrations; Index of manuscript.
Author : Winokur Sara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733452809
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Double Blind written by Winokur Sara and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Icelandic Physiologus written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1938 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andri Snær Magnason
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632062062
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Casket of Time written by Andri Snær Magnason and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rose can rest in the casket for a thousand years without fading. An egg can remain there for centuries without going bad. A person could lie there for a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, completely protected from time." What happens when the world starts to fall apart, and no one will take responsibility for mending it? Sigrun’s family, along with everyone else, finds refuge from the crisis in a new technology called TimeBox®, which lets you hibernate until the world’s problems solve themselves. But Sigrun’s TimeBox® opens early, and she wakes to a city in chaos, overrun by nature. Sigrun joins a roving band of kids and a wise researcher named Grace, who tells them of the ancient kingdom of Pangea, and the greedy king who wanted to protect his daughter Obsidiana from pain, gloomy days, and growing older by putting her in a silken casket that time could not penetrate. But Obsidiana learns that sabotaging time is a dangerous business, with effects that ripple outward even to the present day. Sigrun realizes it’s up to her and her friends to face the crisis, break the curse, and fix the world before it’s too late! Winner of The Icelandic Literary Prize for Children and Young People’s Books Winner of The Icelandic Booksellers Prize for Best Teenage Book of the Year Nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize Winner of the The West Nordic Literature Prize Winner of the Reykjavik Children’s Literature Prize “The story confronts the concept of time and twists old fairy-tale memories with a passionate creativity.” —The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize Citation “Andri Snær Magnason has created an intimate epic that floats effortlessly between genres as diverse as fairy tale and political commentary, science fiction and social realism. The Casket of Time spans the chasm between ‘once upon a time’ and ‘have you heard the news today’ in a way that makes his philosophical fable feel both timely and timeless.” —Bjarke Ingels “The largest box of chocolate written in the Icelandic language that I have ever laid my hands on... This is confectionery for the mind!... This is a book for the 3 year old, the 30 year old, the 300 year old.” —Audur Haraldsdóttir, Channel 2, National Radio (Iceland) “The power of story animates a tale that communicates—but is not overpowered by—urgent messages.” — Kirkus Reviews
Author : Mikael Males
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110643936
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature written by Mikael Males and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period. The book argues that this cannot simply be explained as a result of strong local traditions, as in most previous scholarship. Thus, for instance, the author demonstrates that the mix of prose and poetry found in kings’ sagas and sagas of Icelanders is roughly contemporary to the written sagas. Similarly, he argues that treatises on poetics and mythology, including Snorri’s Edda, are new to the period, not only in their textual form, but also in their systematic mode of analysis. The book contends that what is truly new in these texts is the method of the authors, derived from Latin learning, but applied to traditional forms and motifs as encapsulated in the skaldic tradition. In this way, Christian Latin learning allowed for its perceived opposite, vernacular oral literature of pagan extraction, to reach full fruition and to largely replace the very literature which had made this process possible in the first place.
