A History Of The Old Icelandic Commonwealth Islendinga Saga Tr
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Author |
: Jon Johannesson |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2007-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780887553318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0887553311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth by : Jon Johannesson
The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. This pioneering work of historiography provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth in 1262.
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: OCLC:844551718 |
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: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis A history of the old Icelandic commonwealth - Islendinga saga, tr by :
Author |
: Jón Jóhannesson |
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1439993480 |
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: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth by : Jón Jóhannesson
Author |
: John McKinnell |
Publisher |
: DS Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1843840421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781843840428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend by : John McKinnell
Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead. A particular, recurring feature of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World [gods and human beings] and those of the Other [giants, giantesses, dwarves, prophetesses, monsters and the dead]. Concentrating on cross-gendered encounters, this book analyses these meetings, and the different motifs and situations they encompass, from the consultation of a prophetess by a king or god, to sexual liaisons and return from the dead. It considers the evidence for their pre-Christian origins, discusses how far individual poets and prose writers were free to modify them, and suggests that they survived in medieval Christian society because [like folk-tale] they provide a non-dogmatic way of resolving social and psychological problems connected with growing up, succession from one generation to the next, sexual relationships and bereavement.
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: Jón Jóhannesson |
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Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:976947949 |
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: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Íslendinga Saga - A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth by : Jón Jóhannesson
Author |
: Paul Acker |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2002-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136601361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136601368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poetic Edda by : Paul Acker
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.
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: Jón Jóhannesson |
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Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0608125733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780608125732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth by : Jón Jóhannesson
Author |
: Oren Falk |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198866046 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198866046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland by : Oren Falk
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.
Author |
: Janet Kvamme Cousins |
Publisher |
: Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015031770251 |
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: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Index Nordicus by : Janet Kvamme Cousins
Author |
: Guðrún P. Helgadóttir |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105038277617 |
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: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar by : Guðrún P. Helgadóttir
The first critical edition based on all the manuscripts currently available, the Icelandic saga, Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar, offers insightful information about daily life, seafaring, law, feud, and superstition during the Sturlung Age (1180-1217), a period of great creativity in Icelandic saga-writing.