Author: Jón Árnason
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Category : Riddles, Icelandic
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Icelandic Riddles
Author: Jón Árnason
Publisher:
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Category : Riddles, Icelandic
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Riddles, Icelandic
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Old English Riddles
Author: Alfred John Wyatt
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Riddles of the Exeter Book
Author: Frederick Tupper
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Category : Riddles, English (Old)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
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Category : Riddles, English (Old)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond
Author: Martin Chase
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823257835
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with “medieval” characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823257835
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with “medieval” characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
A History of Icelandic Literature
Author: Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803233469
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803233469
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
The Reception of »Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
Author: Jeffrey Scott Love
Publisher: Herbert Utz Verlag
ISBN: 3831642257
Category : Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher: Herbert Utz Verlag
ISBN: 3831642257
Category : Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Heroic Sagas and Ballads
Author: Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501735977
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history. Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation—some oral, some written—Mitchell explores their aesthetic and social dimensions, demonstrating their function both as entertainment and as a literature with a more serious purpose, one with deep roots in Nordic literary consciousness. The traditions that these sagas relate possessed an importance beyond the temporal and geographical confines of medieval Iceland, and Heroic Sagas and Ballads considers the process by which these heroic materials were subsequently recast as metrical romances in Iceland and as ballads throughout the rest of Scandinavia. It is ultimately concerned with much more than just those stories that inspired such modern writers as Richard Wagner and H. Rider Haggard; its anthropological and folkloric approach to the legendary sagas shows how the extraliterary dimensions of medieval texts can be explored. Heroic Sagas and Ballads addresses issues of central importance to medievalists, folklorists, comparatists, Scandinavianists, and students of the ballad.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501735977
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history. Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation—some oral, some written—Mitchell explores their aesthetic and social dimensions, demonstrating their function both as entertainment and as a literature with a more serious purpose, one with deep roots in Nordic literary consciousness. The traditions that these sagas relate possessed an importance beyond the temporal and geographical confines of medieval Iceland, and Heroic Sagas and Ballads considers the process by which these heroic materials were subsequently recast as metrical romances in Iceland and as ballads throughout the rest of Scandinavia. It is ultimately concerned with much more than just those stories that inspired such modern writers as Richard Wagner and H. Rider Haggard; its anthropological and folkloric approach to the legendary sagas shows how the extraliterary dimensions of medieval texts can be explored. Heroic Sagas and Ballads addresses issues of central importance to medievalists, folklorists, comparatists, Scandinavianists, and students of the ballad.