A History Of The Old Icelandic Commonwealth
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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.
Author |
: Jón Jóhannesson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1439993480 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth by : Jón Jóhannesson
Author |
: Jón Jóhannesson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1210235 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis A history of the old Icelandic Commonwealth by : Jón Jóhannesson
Author |
: Jesse L. Byock |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1990-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520069544 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520069541 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Iceland by : Jesse L. Byock
Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.
Author |
: Ann-Marie Long |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2017-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004336513 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004336516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100 by : Ann-Marie Long
In Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100: Memory, History and Identity, Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of Icelandic society from the earliest settlements to the twelfth century. Through a series of thematic studies, the book discusses the place of Norway in Icelandic cultural memory and how Icelandic authors envisioned and reconstructed their past. It examines in particular how these authors instrumentalized Norway to explain the changing parameters of Icelandic autonomy. Over time this strategy evolved to meet the needs of thirteenth-century Icelandic politics as well as the demands posed by the transition from autonomous island to Norwegian dependency.
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ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:844551718 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis A history of the old Icelandic commonwealth - Islendinga saga, tr by :
Author |
: Jón Jóhannesson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:976947949 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Íslendinga Saga - A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth by : Jón Jóhannesson
Author |
: William R. Short |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2010-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786447275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786447273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Icelanders in the Viking Age by : William R. Short
The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Author |
: Jon Vidar Sigurdsson |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2017-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501708473 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501708473 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Viking Friendship by : Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the Hávamál (c. 1000) Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In Viking Friendship, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson explores the various ways in which friendship tied Icelandic and Norwegian societies together, its role in power struggles and ending conflicts, and how it shaped religious beliefs and practices both before and after the introduction of Christianity. Drawing on a wide range of Icelandic sagas and other sources, Sigurðsson details how loyalties between friends were established and maintained. The key elements of Viking friendship, he shows, were protection and generosity, which was most often expressed through gift giving and feasting. In a society without institutions that could guarantee support and security, these were crucial means of structuring mutual assistance. As a political force, friendship was essential in the decentralized Free State period in Iceland’s history (from its settlement about 800 until it came under Norwegian control in the years 1262–1264) as local chieftains vied for power and peace. In Norway, where authority was more centralized, kings attempted to use friendship to secure the loyalty of their subjects. The strong reciprocal demands of Viking friendship also informed the relationship that individuals had both with the Old Norse gods and, after 1000, with Christianity’s God and saints. Addressing such other aspects as the possibility of friendship between women and the relationship between friendship and kinship, Sigurðsson concludes by tracing the decline of friendship as the fundamental social bond in Iceland as a consequence of Norwegian rule.
Author |
: Gunnar Karlsson |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816635897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816635894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Iceland by : Gunnar Karlsson
Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age. Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.