Pious Fictions and Pseudo-Saints in the Late Middle Ages

Kalinke Marianne

• Paperback | Engels | Mediaeval Sources in Translation
• Pious Fictions and Pseudo-Saints in the Late Middle Ages contains English translations of selected legends from a remarkable sixteenth-century Iceland... Lees meer

The Vikings

Kirsten Wolf, Tristan Mueller-Vollmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Facts and Fictions
• This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, disc... Lees meer

The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry

Kirsten Wolf, Natalie M Van Deusen

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis)
• The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 201... Lees meer

Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Saint Barbara

Kirsten Wolf

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts
• The legend of Saint Barbara is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts which are presented here on facing pages followed by an English translation. ... Lees meer

Writings of Western Icelandic Women

• Paperback | Engels
• There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, occupied since before the arrival of the Vikings. The other is "Western Iceland," the comm... Lees meer

Viking Age

Kirsten Wolf

• Hardcover | Engels | Everyday Life
• Though infamous for their pirating and raiding, active Vikings were actually only a tiny fraction of the total Scandinavian population during the so-c... Lees meer

Daily Life of the Vikings

Kirsten Wolf

• Hardcover | Engels | Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History
• Though infamous for their violent marauding, Vikings were but one part of the complex Scandinavian culture from which they emerged. This excellent and... Lees meer

Western Icelandic Short Stories

• Paperback | Engels
• This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-... Lees meer

The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose

Kirsten Wolf

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis)
• Saints' legends form a substantial portion of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, and can be found in more than four hundred manuscripts or fragments of m... Lees meer

Vikings

Tristan Mueller-Vollmer, Kirsten Wolf

• Hardcover | Engels
• For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they did it in a h... Lees meer