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Icelanders and the Kings of Norway
Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts
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The book uses sagas and legal texts to re-examine the relations between mediaeval Icelanders and the Norwegian kings. It demonstrates that the Icelanders - partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power - were ready to negotiate with him for their own benefit, and presents a methodological re-evaluation of authorial attributions of the sagas and their use as historical sources. Key to the book is a revisionary analysis of two laws made between the Icelanders and the kings of Norway: a law probably issued by King Óláfr inn helgi of Norway (1015-1028), and the purported submission agreements with King Hákon Hákonarson (1217-1263), known as Gizurarsáttmáli or Gamli sáttmáli. It also analyses the sagas of the fourteenth-century manuscript Möðruvallabók against the historical context extracted from this legal re-evaluation.
Subject categories
- Academic > Literature > Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian > Literary history and criticism > Prose > Sagas
- Literary Criticism > European > German
- History > Military > World War I
- History > Medieval
- History > Scandinavia
- History > Africa
- History > Australia & Oceania
- History > World
- History > Asia
- History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
- Law
ISBNs
9789004145160
9781433707698
1433707691