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Author : Arngrímur Vídalín
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9979721618
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Supernatural in Íslendingasögur written by Arngrímur Vídalín and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive analysis of the supernatural in Icelandic sagas.
Author : H. Munro Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108016146
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Literature written by H. Munro Chadwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written literatures of regions from Iceland and the British Isles, to Russia, the Balkans, Africa, India and the Pacific, placing them in their historical context and examining similarities between them. The authors discuss both ancient and recent texts, illustrating the connections within each group and considering the question of whether all literary growth is influenced by common factors. Praised on publication as ' ... a work that is not, probably could not be, superseded' (International Journal of Comparative Sociology), the book remains a benchmark for those studying comparative literature or the history of literary criticism. Volume 1 analyses a range of medieval British and Icelandic poetry and sagas, drawing analogies with the literature of early Greece and focusing particularly on the concept of heroic literature.
Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141933267
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
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.
Author : University of Washington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Abstracts of Theses, Faculty Bibliography and Research in Progress written by University of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judy Quinn
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World written by Judy Quinn and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents twenty essays by leading scholars of Old Norse which bring into focus the nature of learned traditions - both oral and written - in medieval Scandinavia and the interpretation and re-interpretation of them over time. Theoretical frameworks for understanding Old Norse literature is the initial topic of the collection, which then moves on to present recent work on Old Norse myth and society; current perspectives on oral traditions in performance and text; and reflections on medieval ideas about language, both vernacular and Latin. The collection is rounded off by a section on prolonged traditions - the transformation of local and imported traditions into new literary forms. Individual essays in the volume offer significant primary research as well as reconsiderations of key issues in scholarship, their subjects ranging widely, both conceptually and chronologically, around the twin themes of learning and understanding. Like the research of the volume's honorand, Margaret Clunies Ross, Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World exemplifies the diversity and vigour of current research in the field of Old Norse and draws together philological, literary, historical and anthropological perspectives on the subject.
Author : Philip Cardew
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Translation of Þorskfirðinga (Gull Þóris) Saga written by Philip Cardew and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an opportunity for individuals to gain access to an Old Icelandic saga. It was written down towards the end of theperiod of saga writing (c. AD 1400) and is found only in one medival vellum manuscript. While the introduction includes the possibility of a Bear's son folk-tale analogue, it also reveals itself as a narrative deriving from a set of complex forces at work in the late Middle Ages.
Author : Viðar Hreinsson
Publisher : Leifur Eiriksson Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Including 49 Tales written by Viðar Hreinsson and published by Leifur Eiriksson Pub.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Schellinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135918260
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Novel written by Paul Schellinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.
Author : Hector Munro Chadwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Literature written by Hector Munro Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Westermarck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas written by Edward Westermarck and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513613
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 written by Ármann Jakobsson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Folklore Theses and Dissertations in the United States written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131704147X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas written by Ármann Jakobsson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
Author : Annette Kolodny
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352869
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book In Search of First Contact written by Annette Kolodny and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.
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 : Christopher Abram
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441102000
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Myths of the Pagan North written by Christopher Abram and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Vikings began to migrate overseas as raiders or settlers in the late eighth century, there is evidence that this new way of life, centred on warfare, commerce and exploration, brought with it a warrior ethos that gradually became codified in the Viking myths, notably in the cult of Odin, the god of war, magic and poetry, and chief god in the Norse pantheon. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when most of Scandinavia had long since been converted to Christianity, form perhaps the most important era in the history of Norse mythology: only at this point were the myths of Thor, Freyr and Odin first recorded in written form. Using archaeological sources to take us further back in time than any written document, the accounts of foreign writers like the Roman historian Tacitus, and the most important repository of stories of the gods, old Norse poetry and the Edda, Christopher Abram leads the reader into the lost world of the Norse gods.
Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of North American Doctoral Dissertations on Old Norse-Icelandic written by Kirsten Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirsten Wolf's annotated bibliographical survey of doctoral dissertations written at North American institutions of higher learning, and treating topics pertaining to Old Norse-Icelandic language, literature, and culture, provides a new tool for basic research. It also offers insight into trends and tendencies in scholarship within the field of Old Norse-Icelandic in the United States and Canada from the last decades of the nineteenth century, when the first doctoral dissertations in the field appeared, to late 1995. Specifically, it demonstrates a gradual shift from studies in language and style, firmly rooted in Germanic philology, to anthropological studies and literary analyses of individual works or themes. Author, director, and institution indices appear at the end of the volume. To facilitate research, Wolf provides a subject index that includes not only titles of works and proper names but also concepts.
