Author: Rory McTurk
Publisher: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN: 0907570089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
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Studies in Ragnars Saga Loðbrókar and its Major Scandinavian Analogues
Author: Rory McTurk
Publisher: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN: 0907570089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
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Publisher: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN: 0907570089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Nothing provided
Studies in Ragnar's Saga Lodbrokar and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues
Author: Rory McTurk
Publisher: Medium Aevum Monographs / Ssmll
ISBN: 9780907570974
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Medium Aevum Monographs / Ssmll
ISBN: 9780907570974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Studies in Ragnars Saga Lodbrokar, and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues
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Category : Sagas
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Category : Sagas
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Vikings
Author: Paul Cavill
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007104022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The turn of the first millennium in Anglo-Saxon England was a time of raiding and settlement. This is the story of how the Church and the law worked together to turn back and tame the invaders, bringing heart to their people.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007104022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The turn of the first millennium in Anglo-Saxon England was a time of raiding and settlement. This is the story of how the Church and the law worked together to turn back and tame the invaders, bringing heart to their people.
Gesta Danorum
Author: Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher: Oxford Medieval Texts
ISBN: 019870576X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Saxo was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral, at that period a Danish cathedral, and lived at the end of the twelfth century. He was in the service of Archbishop Absalon, who encouraged him to write a history of his own country from the beginnings up to his own time, with a strong Christian bias. Starting with the myths and heroic tales of primitive Scandinavia, he devoted the first nine of his sixteen books to legendary material before dealing with the first kings of the Viking age and finished in 1285, after relating the earlier exploits of King Cnut Valdemarsson. The activities of the Danish kings were intimately bound up with the monarchies of Norway and Sweden; Cnut the Great, one of Saxo's heroes, whose empire stretched as far as Britain and Iceland, was ruler of both these countries. In the last books Saxo took particular concern to describe the campaigns of Valdemar the Great and his warrior archbishop, Absalon, against the Wends of North Germany. The work is a prosimetrum, that is, in six of the first nine books he inserts poems, which are intended to parallel specimens of old Danish heroic poetry in Latin metres. Saxo's Latin prose style is often complex, based as it is on models like Valerius Maximus and Martianus Capella, but he is a lively and compelling story-teller, often displaying a rather sly sense of humour, and an interest in the supernatural. He is the first author to give a full account of Hamlet, whose adventures he relates at some length, the elements of which in a great many respects correspond surprisingly closely with the characters and incidents of Shakespeare's play. Volume II of Saxo Grammaticus contains books 11-16 of Saxo's work, mainly dealing with the history of the first Danish kings.
Publisher: Oxford Medieval Texts
ISBN: 019870576X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Saxo was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral, at that period a Danish cathedral, and lived at the end of the twelfth century. He was in the service of Archbishop Absalon, who encouraged him to write a history of his own country from the beginnings up to his own time, with a strong Christian bias. Starting with the myths and heroic tales of primitive Scandinavia, he devoted the first nine of his sixteen books to legendary material before dealing with the first kings of the Viking age and finished in 1285, after relating the earlier exploits of King Cnut Valdemarsson. The activities of the Danish kings were intimately bound up with the monarchies of Norway and Sweden; Cnut the Great, one of Saxo's heroes, whose empire stretched as far as Britain and Iceland, was ruler of both these countries. In the last books Saxo took particular concern to describe the campaigns of Valdemar the Great and his warrior archbishop, Absalon, against the Wends of North Germany. The work is a prosimetrum, that is, in six of the first nine books he inserts poems, which are intended to parallel specimens of old Danish heroic poetry in Latin metres. Saxo's Latin prose style is often complex, based as it is on models like Valerius Maximus and Martianus Capella, but he is a lively and compelling story-teller, often displaying a rather sly sense of humour, and an interest in the supernatural. He is the first author to give a full account of Hamlet, whose adventures he relates at some length, the elements of which in a great many respects correspond surprisingly closely with the characters and incidents of Shakespeare's play. Volume II of Saxo Grammaticus contains books 11-16 of Saxo's work, mainly dealing with the history of the first Danish kings.
Handbook of English and Celtic Studies in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
Author: N. H. Keeble
Publisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Current Research in Britain
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Whitaker's Books in Print
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 3116
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 3116
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CURRENT CONTENTS: Arts & Humanities -- Volume 15, Number 6, March 15, 1993.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1174
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Languages : en
Pages : 1174
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
Book Description
A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
Book Description
A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.