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Author : Eiríkr Magnússon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last of the Icelandic Commonwealth written by Eiríkr Magnússon and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Johannesson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553311
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth written by Jon Johannesson and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. This pioneering work of historiography provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth in 1262.
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 : Jón Jóhannesson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A history of the old Icelandic Commonwealth written by Jón Jóhannesson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Chieftains and Power in the Icelandic Commonwealth written by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporates material from the various Sagas of the Icelanders into an analysis of the political evolution of Iceland in the period 930-1264. The author argues that the most important contribution of the sagas to the history of political development is an understanding of the basis of the chieftains' power and their influence, as well as the use of symbols such as banners and emblems in the chieftancy system. Translated from the 1993 doctoral dissertation Goder og maktforhold pa Island i fristatstiden. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jón Jóhannesson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (877 download)
Download or read book A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth written by Jón Jóhannesson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirsten Hastrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Culture and History in Medieval Iceland written by Kirsten Hastrup and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 930, Iceland first established a common law for the island and became an autonomous republic, which lasted until it came under the sovereignty of the Norwegian king nearly three and a half centuries later. This volume is a two-part analysis of that society, known as the Icelandic "commonwealth" or "Freestate." The first section examines how medieval Icelanders classified and perceived such domains as time, space, kinship, political organization, and cosmology, linking together these various realms to present an integrated picture of the society's world-view. The second section focuses on the changes that took place during the period in the fields of ecology, demography, religion, property relations, and the law, and explains how and why these changes, interacting with more fundamental social structures and beliefs, undermined--and ultimately destroyed--the society.
Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786447273
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Icelanders in the Viking Age written by William R. Short and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Author : Orri Vesteinsson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191543020
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Christianization of Iceland written by Orri Vesteinsson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first historical study of High-Medieval Iceland to be published in English, Dr Vesteinsson investigates the influence of the Christian Church on the formation of the earliest state structures in Iceland, from the conversion in 1000 to the union with Norway in 1262. In the history of mankind states and state structures have usually been established before the advent of written records. As a result historians are rarely able to trace with certainty the early development of complex structures of government. In Iceland, literacy and the practice of native history writing had been established by the beginning of the twelfth century; whereas the formation of a centralised government did not occur until more than a hundred years later. The early development of statelike structures has therefore been unusually well chronicled, in the Icelandic Sagas, and in the historical records of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based on this wealth of material,The Christianization of Iceland is an important contribution to the discussion on the formation of states.
Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786456079
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Icelanders in the Viking Age written by William R. Short and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Author : Joanna Skórzewska
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194967
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Constructing a Cult written by Joanna Skórzewska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a variety of extant written sources, this study offers a comprehensive reevaluation of Guðmundr Arason’s popularity in medieval Iceland. It presents a new perspective on the saintly fame and veneration of this controversial and interesting individual.
Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1137073713
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Song of the Vikings written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri Sturluson. Like Homer, Snorri was a bard, writing down and embellishing the folklore and pagan legends of medieval Scandinavia. Unlike Homer, Snorri was a man of the world—a wily political power player, one of the richest men in Iceland who came close to ruling it, and even closer to betraying it... In Song of the Vikings, award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown brings Snorri Sturluson's story to life in a richly textured narrative that draws on newly available sources.
Author : Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501708473
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Viking Friendship written by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the Hávamál (c. 1000) Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In Viking Friendship, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson explores the various ways in which friendship tied Icelandic and Norwegian societies together, its role in power struggles and ending conflicts, and how it shaped religious beliefs and practices both before and after the introduction of Christianity. Drawing on a wide range of Icelandic sagas and other sources, Sigurðsson details how loyalties between friends were established and maintained. The key elements of Viking friendship, he shows, were protection and generosity, which was most often expressed through gift giving and feasting. In a society without institutions that could guarantee support and security, these were crucial means of structuring mutual assistance. As a political force, friendship was essential in the decentralized Free State period in Iceland’s history (from its settlement about 800 until it came under Norwegian control in the years 1262–1264) as local chieftains vied for power and peace. In Norway, where authority was more centralized, kings attempted to use friendship to secure the loyalty of their subjects. The strong reciprocal demands of Viking friendship also informed the relationship that individuals had both with the Old Norse gods and, after 1000, with Christianity’s God and saints. Addressing such other aspects as the possibility of friendship between women and the relationship between friendship and kinship, Sigurðsson concludes by tracing the decline of friendship as the fundamental social bond in Iceland as a consequence of Norwegian rule.
Author : Chris Callow
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004331603
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Landscape, Tradition and Power in Medieval Iceland written by Chris Callow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland’s socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.
Author : Stefán Einarsson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421435462
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A History of Icelandic Literature written by Stefán Einarsson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1957. Stefán Einarsson covers almost a thousand years of Icelandic literature in tracing the influence of the sagas and eddic poems. The book begins with background on Icelandic literature, outlining its literary roots in Scandinavia. Following this, Einarsson provides a thorough survey of Icelandic literature through the 1950s.
Author : Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Place of Iceland in the History of European Institutions written by Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philadelphia Ricketts
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004189475
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire written by Philadelphia Ricketts and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally different societies provides a fresh approach which reconsiders generalizations about widows’ independence.
