The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas (1200-1250)

Theodore M Andersson

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 55
• The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas (1200-1250) is a study of the genesis of Old Icelandic prose literature from its roots in oral traditio... Lees meer

The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason

Oddr Snorrason

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 52
• Oddr Snorrason, a Benedictine monk in northern Iceland in the late twelfth century, composed a landmark Latin biography of the legendary Norwegian kin... Lees meer

Language of Power

Viðar Pálsson

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 60
• In Language of Power , Viðar Pálsson addresses pre-modern European power relationships that provide the context for narratives of feasts and exchanges... Lees meer

Icelandic Baroque

Margrét Eggertsdóttir

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 56
• Icelandic Baroque seeks to approach the writings of Hallgrimur Petursson (1614-1674), Iceland's leading devotional poet, from a new direction. Hallgri... Lees meer

Wisdom of the North

Richard L Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 64
• Wisdom of the North studies how and for what purposes proverbs were used by the composers of the sagas, thereby demonstrating how awareness of proverb... Lees meer

Iceland's Shelter-Seeking Behavior

Baldur Thorhallsson

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 63
• Iceland's Shelter-Seeking Behavior challenges the traditional narrative that Iceland's submission to foreign rule and external relations had catastrop... Lees meer

New Norse Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Islandica | nr. 58
• New Norse Studies, edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse-Icelandic literature that continue to kindle ... Lees meer

The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130-1265)

Theodore M Andersson

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 59
• In The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130-1265) , Theodore M. Andersson offers an orientation to the category of Icelandic sagas known as "kings' sagas," ... Lees meer

Romance and Love in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 54
• Islandica LIV"The world of romance, whether secular or sacred, is often fraught with difficulties. Lovers are parted and have to struggle to be reunit... Lees meer

The Structure of Old Norse Dróttkvætt Poetry

Kari Ellen Gade

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 49
• The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the str... Lees meer

Morkinskinna

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 51
• Morkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Norway (1030-1157), forms the basis of the Icelandic chron... Lees meer

Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing

Joseph Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Islandica | nr. 53
• This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill of twelve of Joseph Harris's most important essays underscores the range of his work from critica... Lees meer

Willard Fiske

Kristín Bragadóttir

• Paperback | Engels | Islandica | nr. 61
• In the middle of the nineteenth century, the young American student Daniel Willard Fiske left college to embark on a sojourn in Denmark and Sweden tha... Lees meer

Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing

Joseph Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 53
• This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill of twelve of Joseph Harris's most important essays underscores the range of his work from critica... Lees meer

An Icelandic Literary Florilegium

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 62
• An Icelandic Literary Florilegium , a special issue of New Norse Studies , is a smorgasbord of noteworthy studies and brings together twelve original ... Lees meer

The Enigma of Egill

Torfi H Tulinius

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 57
• Egil's Saga , composed some eight hundred years ago to relate the life and times of Egill Skallagrimsson, the Viking poet and Icelander of the tenth c... Lees meer

Morkinskinna

• Paperback | Engels | Islandica | nr. 51
• Morkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Norway (1030-1157), forms the basis of the Icelandic chron... Lees meer