Sagas, Saints and Settlements

Sagas, Saints and Settlements PDF Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047405188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.

Sagas, Saints and Settlements

Sagas, Saints and Settlements PDF Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047405188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Book Description
This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.

Sagas, Saints and Settlements

Sagas, Saints and Settlements PDF Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004138072
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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Book Description
This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Oskarsdottir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.

The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose

The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose PDF Author: Kirsten Wolf
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442646217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlistThe Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.

Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles

Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles PDF Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108052495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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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.

A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre

A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre PDF Author: Massimiliano Bampi
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845644
Category : Literary form
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.

Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles

Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles PDF Author: Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northmen
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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West over Sea

West over Sea PDF Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047421213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period. Contributors include: Lesley Abrams, Haki Antonsson, Beverley Ballin Smith, James Barrett, Paul Bibire, Nicholas Brooks, Dauvit Broun, Margaret Cormac, Neil Curtis, Clare Downham, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Ian Fisher, Katherine Forsyth, Peder Gammeltoft, Sarah Jane Gibbon, Mark Hall, Hans Emil Liden, Christopher Lowe, Joanne McKenzie, Christopher Morris, Elizabeth Okasha, Elizabeth Ridel, Liv Schei, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Brian Smith, Steffen Stumann Hansen, Frans Arne Stylegård, Simon Taylor, William Thomson, Gareth Williams, Doreen Waugh and Alex Woolf.

Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea

Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea PDF Author: Andrew Jennings
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443892688
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders’ history, forging their unique way of life, influencing their customs and traditions, and has been instrumental in moulding their identities. This volume is an exploration of a rich, intimate and, at times, terrifying relationship. It is the result of an international conference held in April 2014, when scholars from across the North Atlantic rim congregated in Lerwick, Shetland, to discuss maritime traditions, islands in Old Norse literature, insular archaeology, folklore, and traditional belief. The chapters reflect the varied origins of the contributors. Icelanders are well represented, as are scholars based in Orkney and Shetland, indicating the strength of scholarship in these seemingly isolated archipelagos. Peripheral they may be to the UK, but they lie at the heart of the North Atlantic, at the intersection of British and Nordic cultures. This book will be of interest to scholars of a wide range of disciplines, such as those involved in island studies, cultural studies, Old Norse literature, Icelandic studies, maritime heritage, oceanography, linguistics, folklore, British studies, ethnology, and archaeology. Similarly, it will also appeal to researchers from a wide geographical area, particularly the UK, and Scandinavia, and indeed anywhere where there is an interest in the study of islands or the North Atlantic.

Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages

Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004205071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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This book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200

Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004255125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have been updated in light of the discussions in Oslo and more recent scholarship. They offer historical, archaeological, art-historical, religious-historical and philological views of the interaction and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Barbara Crawford, Claire Downham, Fiona Edmonds, Colmán Etchingham, Zanette T. Glørstad, John Hines, Alan Lane, Julie Lund, Jan Erik Rekdal and David Wyatt.