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Fornaldarsagaerne
Author | : Agneta Ney,Ármann Jakobsson,Annette Lassen |
Publsiher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fornaldarsögur Norðrlanda |
ISBN | : 9788763525794 |
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The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
Author | : Ármann Jakobsson,Sverrir Jakobsson |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2017-02-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317041474 |
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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.
A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre
Author | : Massimiliano Bampi,Carolyne Larrington,Sif Rikhardsdottir |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary form |
ISBN | : 9781843845645 |
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A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.
Gesta Danorum
Author | : Saxo (Grammaticus) |
Publsiher | : Oxford Medieval Texts |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198705765 |
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Saxo was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral, at that period a Danish cathedral, and lived at the end of the twelfth century. He was in the service of Archbishop Absalon, who encouraged him to write a history of his own country from the beginnings up to his own time, with a strong Christian bias. Starting with the myths and heroic tales of primitive Scandinavia, he devoted the first nine of his sixteen books to legendary material before dealing with the first kings of the Viking age and finished in 1285, after relating the earlier exploits of King Cnut Valdemarsson. The activities of the Danish kings were intimately bound up with the monarchies of Norway and Sweden; Cnut the Great, one of Saxo's heroes, whose empire stretched as far as Britain and Iceland, was ruler of both these countries. In the last books Saxo took particular concern to describe the campaigns of Valdemar the Great and his warrior archbishop, Absalon, against the Wends of North Germany. The work is a prosimetrum, that is, in six of the first nine books he inserts poems, which are intended to parallel specimens of old Danish heroic poetry in Latin metres. Saxo's Latin prose style is often complex, based as it is on models like Valerius Maximus and Martianus Capella, but he is a lively and compelling story-teller, often displaying a rather sly sense of humour, and an interest in the supernatural. He is the first author to give a full account of Hamlet, whose adventures he relates at some length, the elements of which in a great many respects correspond surprisingly closely with the characters and incidents of Shakespeare's play. Volume II of Saxo Grammaticus contains books 11-16 of Saxo's work, mainly dealing with the history of the first Danish kings.
The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
Author | : Mikael Males |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110643930 |
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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.
In Austrvegr The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea
Author | : Marika Mägi |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004363816 |
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Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2018 Book Prize This volume offers a novel, trans-regional vision of Viking Age (9th-11th century) cultural and political contacts between Scandinavia and the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea, using predominantly archaeological evidence, combined with historical sources, topography and logistical considerations.
Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages
Author | : Mark Chinca,Christopher Young |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108477642 |
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A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.
Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend
Author | : Katherine Marie Olley |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : Kinship |
ISBN | : 9781843846376 |
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This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.