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Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders
Author | : Margaret Clunies Ross |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : Sagas |
ISBN | : 9781843846390 |
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Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions of the lives, loves and feuds of settler families of the first century and a half of Iceland's commonwealth period (c. AD 970-1030), but this ascription of realism fails to account for one of the most important components of these sagas, the abundance of skaldic poetry, mostly in dróttkvætt "court metre", which comes to saga heroes' lips at moments of crisis. These presumed voices from the past and their integration into the narrative present of the written sagas are the subject of this book. It investigates what motivated Icelandic writers to develop this particular mode, and what particular literary effects they achieved by it. It also looks at the various paths saga writers took within the evolving prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.g prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.g prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.g prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.
Skaldsagas
Author | : Russell Gilbert Poole |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110169703 |
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Eleven papers present broad discussions of a small group of sagas which chronicle the lives of Skalds, court poets, and provide a vivid and entertaining portrait of poetry, love and warfare. The contributors examine the typical features of the skald sagas, their date and authorship, the relationship between verse and prose, their composition, characterisation and their relationship with other Icelandic and European genres. The sagas discussed are Bjarnar saga, Gunnlaugs saga, Hallfredar saga and Kormaks saga .
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders
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Author | : Margaret Clunies Ross,Kari Ellen Gade,Tarrin Wills |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 2503518982 |
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Collected together in this volume are long poems and stanzas attributed to the characters who appear in sagas of Icelanders (family sagas), including such well known figures as Egill Skallagrimsson, Gisli Sursson and Grettir Asmundarson. The poetry from twenty-four complete sagas and four short tales are edited here, together with two texts from non-saga manuscripts, including the scurrilous Grettisfrsla, 'The Moving of Grettir'. The texts range chronologically from early poets' sagas to late and little known works from the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Egil the Viking Poet
Author | : Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781442621244 |
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Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore.
William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas
Author | : Ian Felce |
Publsiher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-05-18 |
Genre | : Heroes in literature |
ISBN | : 1843845016 |
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An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris.
Sagas of Warrior poets
Author | : Leifur Eiricksson |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2002-08-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141941585 |
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Kormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Set in the farmsteads of Viking age Iceland at a time when the old ethos of honour and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and travels to foreign lands.
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
Author | : Margaret Clunies Ross |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2000-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521631129 |
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The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
Author | : Mikael Males |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110642377 |
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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.