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Author : Rudolf Simek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book SAGNASKEMMTUN written by Rudolf Simek and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740512
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Saga written by Carol J. Clover and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still read today? The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent. Analyzing the narrative structure and composition of the sagas and comparing them with other medieval works, Clover shows that the Icelandic authors, using Continental models, owe the prose form of their writings, as well as some basic narrative strategies, to Latin historiography and to French romance.
Author : Lars Lönnroth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027084
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Njáls Saga written by Lars Lönnroth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501735977
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Heroic Sagas and Ballads written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history. Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation—some oral, some written—Mitchell explores their aesthetic and social dimensions, demonstrating their function both as entertainment and as a literature with a more serious purpose, one with deep roots in Nordic literary consciousness. The traditions that these sagas relate possessed an importance beyond the temporal and geographical confines of medieval Iceland, and Heroic Sagas and Ballads considers the process by which these heroic materials were subsequently recast as metrical romances in Iceland and as ballads throughout the rest of Scandinavia. It is ultimately concerned with much more than just those stories that inspired such modern writers as Richard Wagner and H. Rider Haggard; its anthropological and folkloric approach to the legendary sagas shows how the extraliterary dimensions of medieval texts can be explored. Heroic Sagas and Ballads addresses issues of central importance to medievalists, folklorists, comparatists, Scandinavianists, and students of the ballad.
Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405188
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Sagas, Saints and Settlements written by Gareth Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.
Author : Guðrún Nordal
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802047892
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Tools of Literacy written by Guðrún Nordal and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse, linking the poets of the time with leading families and with ecclesiastical and secular learning.
Author : Ben Waggoner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557729416
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Hrafnista Sagas written by Ben Waggoner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norwegian island of Hrafnista was long remembered in medieval Iceland as the ancestral home of a family of powerful chieftains, who were said to have faced and triumphed over dangers ranging from tyrant kings, to storms and famines, to giants, dragons, and sorcery. Descendants of these Men of Hrafnista settled in Iceland and gave rise to prominent families, who passed on tales of their ancestors for generations until they were written down. For the first time, the Old Norse sagas of the Men of Hrafnista-the Saga of Ketil Salmon, the Saga of Grim Shaggy-Cheek, the Saga of Arrow-Odd, and the Saga of An Bow-Bender-have been collected in one volume, in English translation. Enter the world of Viking legend and lore with these tales of high adventure.
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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906987
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Vinland Sagas written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-09-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.
Author : Njáls Saga
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520308786
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Njáls Saga written by Njáls Saga and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author : Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351665014
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
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 : Richard F. Allen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975904
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Fire and Iron written by Richard F. Allen and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Iceland by an unknown author about 1280, Njals saga has been called the greatest work of vernacular prose fiction from the European Middle Ages. Allen's finely written and perceptive study is one of the first in English to offer a critical examination of the text.
Author : Jesse L. Byock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520069541
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Medieval Iceland written by Jesse L. Byock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-02-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.
Author : John Lindow
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0692520163
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Frederic Amory in Memoriam: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies written by John Lindow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays written in memory of Frederic Amory.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615305432
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Prose written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives come in many forms, fall into many genres, and tell the stories of an endless assortment of characters. Despite recurring themes and conceits in works from around the world, each storyfrom biography to science fictionis singular and designed to elicit a distinct emotional response from its readers. The rhetorical tools and literary styles that have helped reinvent the art and study of storytelling over time are surveyed in this captivating volume.
Author : Else Mundal
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763538997
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Dating the Sagas written by Else Mundal and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Icelandic genre known as the Family Sagas, Sagas of Icelanders, or Sagas about early Icelanders consists of anonymous works, and the genre, as well as the individual sagas, are therefore difficult to date. This literature is also difficult to date since sagas are stories that were transformed both during oral and scribal transmission. The authors of the present book address methodological problems and discuss the dating of individual sagas and the genre itself. Focusing their attention on an important period in the history of Icelandic literature, the authors are particularly concerned with the several new written genres which developed in Iceland in the thirteenth century, of which the Sagas about early Icelanders is regarded as the most important. The articles gathered in this volume show that the dating of the beginning of this written genre and of individual sagas belonging to it is crucial to the understanding of the development of literary history in thirteenth-century Iceland.
Else Mundal is professor of Old Norse Philology at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen. She has published widely on Old Norse saga literature, Eddic and skaldic poetry, on Old Norse mythology, women in Old Norse society, as well as on the relationship between the oral and the written literature and the impact of Christianization on the Old Norse culture.
Author : Hans Bekker-Nielsen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442633492
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Old Norse-Icelandic Studies written by Hans Bekker-Nielsen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1967-12-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies for the years 1981-83, offering a quick guide to recent work.
