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An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders
Author | : CARL. PHELPSTEAD |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813080681 |
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Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island's early history.
Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles
Author | : Guðbrandur Vigfússon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Northmen |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101067289742 |
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Iceland Saga
Author | : Magnus Magnusson |
Publsiher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780750981835 |
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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.
Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland
Author | : Oren Falk |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192635570 |
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Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk. Analysing violence in instrumental terms, as an attempt to coerce others, focuses on power. Analysing it in symbolic terms, as an attempt to communicate meanings, focuses on signification. Finally, analysing it in cognitive terms, as an attempt to exercise agency despite imperfect control over circumstances, focuses on risk. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland explores a place and time notorious for its rampant violence. Iceland's famous sagas hold treasure troves of circumstantial data, ideally suited for past-tense ethnography, yet demand that the reader come up with subtle and innovative methodologies for recovering histories from their stories. The sagas throw into sharp relief the kinds of analytic insights we obtain through cultural interpretation, offering lessons that apply to other epochs too.
The Icelandic Sagas
Author | : W. A. Craigie |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107401723 |
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A critical examination of sagas, and a consideration of the circumstances that fostered such an outpouring of literature in Iceland during the Middle Ages.
The Sagas of the Icelanders
Author | : Jane Smilely |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2005-02-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141933269 |
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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.
Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108052498 |
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This four-volume set (1887-94) includes sagas of Orkney and of King Hákon Hákonarson of Norway, in Old Norse and English translation.
Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles
Author | : Gudbrand Vigfusson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108052474 |
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This four-volume set (1887-94) includes sagas of Orkney and of King Hákon Hákonarson of Norway, in Old Norse and English translation.