This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.
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"eminently well-considered and well-written overview of the nature of medieval Icelandic society and its various social, political, and legal institutions in relation to its literary production and the way in which literature was used...the volume is a stimulating and enjoyable book, especially if read piecemeal and not in one sitting...An important factor to the credit of the volume is its detailed subject and name Index and the full Bioliographies and often-detailes notes at the end of each article, which enable the reader to follow each contributor's tracks." Envoi Spring 2000
"eminently well-considered and well-written overview of the nature of medieval Icelandic society and its various social, political, and legal institutions in relation to its literary production and the way in which literature was used...the volume is a stimulating and enjoyable book, especially if read piecemeal and not in one sitting...An important factor to the credit of the volume is its detailed subject and name Index and the full Bioliographies and often-detailes notes at the end of each article, which enable the reader to follow each contributor's tracks." Envoi Spring 2000
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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre which textualised their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.
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In the Middle Ages language spoken in Iceland and the other Norwegian colonies in the West was Norse, most closely related to the southwest Norwegian dialects of Hordaland and Rogaland, where the majority of the settlers in these new lands had their origin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skaldic diction, contemporary sagas, konunga tal, skaldic poetry, eddic poetry, secular sagas, skaldic stanzas, islenzk fornrit, earliest sagas, skaldic verse, saga helga, eddic poems, noble heathen, nordisk middelalder, grammatical treatise, saga literature, royal panegyrics, skaldic poems, first saga, continental romance, nordisk filologi, native saints, genealogical knowledge, law speaker, mythological poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Snorri Sturluson, Old Norse, Clunies Ross, Odense University Press, Meulengracht Sorensen, Middle Ages, Snorra Edda, Old Icelandic, New York, The Viking Collection, Gerd Wolfgang, Old Testament, Stofnun Arna, Cornell University Press, Sturla Sighvatsson, Snorri's Edda, Gudmundr Arason, Norse Studies, Oddr Snorrason, Saxo Grammaticus, University of Manitoba Press, Scandinavian Studies, Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, Middle English, University of Manitoba Icelandic Studies New!
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In the Middle Ages language spoken in Iceland and the other Norwegian colonies in the West was Norse, most closely related to the southwest Norwegian dialects of Hordaland and Rogaland, where the majority of the settlers in these new lands had their origin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skaldic diction, contemporary sagas, konunga tal, skaldic poetry, eddic poetry, secular sagas, skaldic stanzas, islenzk fornrit, earliest sagas, skaldic verse, saga helga, eddic poems, noble heathen, nordisk middelalder, grammatical treatise, saga literature, royal panegyrics, skaldic poems, first saga, continental romance, nordisk filologi, native saints, genealogical knowledge, law speaker, mythological poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Snorri Sturluson, Old Norse, Clunies Ross, Odense University Press, Meulengracht Sorensen, Middle Ages, Snorra Edda, Old Icelandic, New York, The Viking Collection, Gerd Wolfgang, Old Testament, Stofnun Arna, Cornell University Press, Sturla Sighvatsson, Snorri's Edda, Gudmundr Arason, Norse Studies, Oddr Snorrason, Saxo Grammaticus, University of Manitoba Press, Scandinavian Studies, Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, Middle English, University of Manitoba Icelandic Studies New!
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- Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia (Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages) by Phillip Pulsiano on 10 pages
- Snorri Sturluson (Reallexikon Der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Erganzungsbande) (German Edition) by Von Hans Fix on 5 pages
- Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) by Carol J Clover on 4 pages
- Saxo Grammaticus by Karsten Friis-Jensen on 4 pages
- Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Siân Echard in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Eigi einhamr: Beiträge zum Weltbild der Eyrbyggja und anderer Isländersagas (Reallexikon Der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Erganzungsband) (German Edition) by Klaus Böldl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Kantik Ghosh in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and Fiction, 1150-1220 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by D. H. Green in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Rita Copeland in Back Matter
- John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Maura Nolan in Back Matter
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