Author: Guðbrandur Vigfússon
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Category : Iceland
Languages : is
Pages : 638
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Islendinga saga
Author: Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : is
Pages : 638
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : is
Pages : 638
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Sturlunga Saga
Author: Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders
Author: Carl Phelpstead
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813057566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings of select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre’s various source traditions and thematic concerns interact. Including an overview of the history of English translations that shows how they have been stimulated and shaped by ideas about identity, and featuring a glossary of critical terms, this book is an essential resource for students of the literary form. A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813057566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings of select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre’s various source traditions and thematic concerns interact. Including an overview of the history of English translations that shows how they have been stimulated and shaped by ideas about identity, and featuring a glossary of critical terms, this book is an essential resource for students of the literary form. A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh
The Laxdœla Saga
Author: Alice Margaret Arent Madelung
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Category : Germanic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher:
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Category : Germanic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Sturlunga Saga: The saga of Hvamm-Sturla; and, The saga of the Icelanders [by Sturla Þórðarson
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Bibliography of the Icelandic Sagas and Minor Tales
Author: Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Sturlunga Saga
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth
Author: Jon Johannesson
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887553311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887553311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Icelanders in North America
Author: Jonas Thor
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887553257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as New Iceland, Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland. Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887553257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as New Iceland, Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland. Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.
Thómas Saga Erkibyskups
Author: Eiríkr Magnússon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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