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Author : D.M. White
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1953035272
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Saga of Þórður Kakali written by D.M. White and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Magnus Magnusson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750981830
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Iceland Saga written by Magnus Magnusson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnus Magnusson relates the world-famous Icelandic sagas to the spectacular living landscapes of today, taking the reader on a literary tour of the mountains, valleys, and fjords where the heroes and heroines of the sagas lived out their eventful lives. He also tells the story of the first Viking settler, Ingolfur Anarson.
Author : D. M. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781953035264
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Saga of Þórður Kakali written by D. M. White and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Icelandic text The Saga of þórður kakali survives today as part of the fourteenth-century compilation The Saga of the Sturlungar. In extant form, The Saga of þórður kakali is a biography of þórður kakali Sighvatsson (c.1210-56) - chieftain, royal retainer, and sheriff - and covers the periods 1242-50 and 1254-56, providing an interesting view of power politics and political culture from the periphery of medieval Europe, challenging dominant historiographical narratives derived from the sources produced at the center.Hitherto, only one English translation of The Saga of the Sturlungar (and thus The Saga of þórður kakali) has ever been produced. This translation was carried out by Julia McGrew and R. George Thomas (published in two volumes, 1970-74). Nevertheless, even with the invaluable assistance of the eminent Icelandic scholar Sigurður Nordal - who provided English translations of the trickier passages of text - McGrew and Thomas's translation turned out to be "defective and unreliable" (in the words of Oren Falk).Published translations are cultural levelers insofar as they open up texts to broader audiences - members of the interested wider public - who may not have the means or time to learn the original language merely to study a single primary source or read a lone literary classic. While McGrew and Thomas's translation of The Saga of þórður kakali is more or less serviceable if used with extreme caution (i.e., by native English speakers with fluency in Icelandic), the importance of competent translations should not be forgotten, especially for the reader without Icelandic language skills: poor translations can offend, confuse, and mislead users of the target language.The present edition of The Saga of þórður kakali offers a new and accessible translation of the text by D.M. White, produced directly from the Icelandic with which it is printed side by side.D.M. White (b. 1994) received his BA and MA from the University of Birmingham before starting his PhD in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at University College London in 2017. His PhD thesis is on the origins of The Saga of þórður kakali, and is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive picture of this thirteenth-century Icelandic saga's beginnings. He has previously published an English translation of The Tale of Geirmundur heljarskinn, another text - like The Saga of þórður kakali - from the fourteenth-century compilation The Saga of the Sturlungar.
Author : Costel Coroban
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512061
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Ideology and Power in Norway and Iceland, 1150-1250 written by Costel Coroban and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the ideology of power in Norway and Iceland as reflected in sources written during the period 1150-1250. The main focus is explaining the way that Kings’ power in Norway, and that of chieftains in Iceland, was idealised in important texts from the 12th and 13th centuries (Sverris saga, Konungs skuggsjá, Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, Íslendingabók, Egils saga, Laxdæla saga and Þórðar saga kakala). The originality of this work consists in the fact that it is the first monograph to comparatively analyse the ideology of power in Iceland, looking specifically at representations of king(s) and chieftains during the Civil Wars period, and compare the findings to those pertaining to Norway.
Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803233469
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
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.
Author : Sarah M. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113482145X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Cold Counsel written by Sarah M. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.
Author : Janice Hawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Monsters, Heroes and Social Identity in Medieval Icelandic and English Literature written by Janice Hawes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170731
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Youth and Age in the Medieval North written by Shannon Lewis-Simpson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume explores social, cultural and biological definitions of youth and age specific to the medieval north, and changing mentalities towards youth and age as a result of political, cultural, and religious transformations in the north.
Author : Esbjörn Rosenblad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Iceland from Past to Present written by Esbjörn Rosenblad and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Gripla written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry G. Lacy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086610
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Ring of Seasons written by Terry G. Lacy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland in all of its extraordinary glory
Author : E. Paul Durrenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Medieval Iceland written by E. Paul Durrenberger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As witness to four hundred years of social, economic, and political change, the sagas of medieval Iceland provide access not only to a single energetic past but to processes of continual change. In this innovative book, which connects the political economy of medieval Iceland and its rich cultural artifacts, E. Paul Durrenberger brings anthropological perspectives to bear on the study of medieval Iceland and brings medieval Iceland into the purview of anthropology. The social order of stratified, stateless medieval Iceland contained a dynamism that inexorably led to the discord of the Sturlung age. Icelanders interpreted their experiences within existing cultural categories and from these interpretations produced the family sagas and the Sturlung sagas. Durrenberger convincingly argues that the sagas are not simply thirteenth-century accounts of earlier times but also the cultural artifacts of the age that created them; moreover, the free translations of the sagas are really nineteenth- and twentieth-century artifacts that impose market and modern state perspectives on the radically different society of medieval Iceland. The rendering of the sagas as a political act revaluing honor, reciprocity, and law can be understood only in the cultural context of their time. For anthropologists unfamiliar with the Icelandic tradition, Durrenberger meticulously illustrates his arguments with contextual analyses of saga plots and episodes. He presents his anthropological theses in a way that will enlighten historians, social scientists, and saga and other literary scholars. By addressing methodological issues of translation and contextualization and using sophisticated models of medieval domesticeconomy and cross-cultural comparisons, The Dynamics of Medieval Iceland serves as an exemplary case study in the expansion of social contexts for literary analysis as well as in the anthropological use of literary and historical data.
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 : Elizabeth Walgenbach
Publisher : Northern World
ISBN 13 : 9789004460911
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland written by Elizabeth Walgenbach and published by Northern World. This book was released on 2021 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Elizabeth Walgenbach argues that outlawry in medieval Iceland was a punishment shaped by the conventions of excommunication as it developed in the medieval Church. Excommunication and outlawry resemble one another, often closely, in a range of Icelandic texts, including lawcodes and narrative sources such as the contemporary sagas. This is not a chance resemblance but a by-product of the way the law was formed and written. Canon law helped to shape the outlines of secular justice. The book is organized into chapters on excommunication, outlawry, outlawry as secular excommunication, and two case studies-one focused on the conflicts surrounding Bishop Guðmundr Arason and another focused on the outlaw Aron Hjǫrleifsson"--
Author : Matthew L. Jockers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030396436
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Text Analysis with R written by Matthew L. Jockers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R. R is an extremely popular programming language, used throughout the sciences; due to its accessibility, R is now used increasingly in other research areas. In this volume, readers immediately begin working with text, and each chapter examines a new technique or process, allowing readers to obtain a broad exposure to core R procedures and a fundamental understanding of the possibilities of computational text analysis at both the micro and the macro scale. Each chapter builds on its predecessor as readers move from small scale “microanalysis” of single texts to large scale “macroanalysis” of text corpora, and each concludes with a set of practice exercises that reinforce and expand upon the chapter lessons. The book’s focus is on making the technical palatable and making the technical useful and immediately gratifying. Text Analysis with R is written with students and scholars of literature in mind but will be applicable to other humanists and social scientists wishing to extend their methodological toolkit to include quantitative and computational approaches to the study of text. Computation provides access to information in text that readers simply cannot gather using traditional qualitative methods of close reading and human synthesis. This new edition features two new chapters: one that introduces dplyr and tidyr in the context of parsing and analyzing dramatic texts to extract speaker and receiver data, and one on sentiment analysis using the syuzhet package. It is also filled with updated material in every chapter to integrate new developments in the field, current practices in R style, and the use of more efficient algorithms.
Author : Stefka G. Eriksen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110664763
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Approaches to the Medieval Self written by Stefka G. Eriksen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span of sources from medieval Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500, such as archeological evidence, architecture and art, documents, literature, and runic inscriptions. The book engages with major theoretical discussions within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural theory, practice theory, and cognitive theory. The authors investigate how the various approaches to the self influence our own scholarly mindsets and horizons, and how they condition what aspects of the medieval self are 'visible' to us. Utilizing this insight, we aim to propose a more syncretic approach towards the medieval self, not in order to substitute excellent models already in existence, but in order to foreground the flexibility and the complementarity of the current theories, when these are seen in relationship to each other. The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the theoretical and methodological flexibility when approaching the medieval self has the potential to raise our awareness of our own position and agency in various social spaces today.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900422159X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Disputing Strategies in Medieval Scandinavia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scandinavia the study of disputes is still a relatively new topic: The papers offered here discuss how conflicts were handled in Scandinavian societies in the Middle Ages before the emergence of strong centralized states. What strategies did people use to contest power, property, rights, honour, and other kinds of material or symbolic assets? Seven essays by Scandinavian scholars are supplemented by contributions from Stephen White, John Hudson and Gerd Althoff, to provide a new baseline for discussing both the strategies pursued in the political game and those used to settle local disputes. Using practice and process as key analytical concepts, these authors explore formal law and litigation in conjunction with non-formal legal proceedings such as out-of-court mediation, rituals, emotional posturing, and feuding. Their insights place the Northern medieval world in a European context of dispute studies. With introductory sections on social structure, sources materials, and the historiography of Scandinavian dispute studies. Contributors are Gerd Althoff, Catharina Andersson, Kim Esmark, Lars Ivar Hansen, Lars Hermanson, John Hudson, Auður G. Magnúsdóttir, Hans Jacob Orning, Helle Vogt and Stephen D. White.
