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Audun and the Polar Bear
BRILL 2008; US$ 130.00Audun's Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a story of complex competitive social action, revealing the... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00Guides students through the texts and contexts of the medieval Scandinavian saga. more...
Commitment and Compassion
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 65.00The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Büchner (1813-1837) occupies a unique place in the cultural legacy of the German-speaking countries. Born into an epoch of inevitable, yet arrested historical transition, Büchner produced a small but exceptionally rich body of work. This collection of essays in English and in... more...
A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture
Wiley 2008; US$ 228.95This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times. Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in the field Reflects current debates among Old Norse-Icelandic scholars Pays attention to previously neglected areas of study,... more...
Der Reisebericht in der deutschen Literatur
De Gruyter 1990; US$ 189.00Der Reisebericht in der deutschen Literatur: Ein Forschungsüberblick als Vorstudie zu einer Gattungsgeschichte more...
Die Karlamagnús-Saga I und ihre altfranzösische Vorlage
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 105.00The 13th century Old Norse Karlamagnús-Saga, a monumental biography of Charlemagne from translated and adapted French Caroline epics such as the Chanson de Roland, is a fascinating example of intensive reception at a distance. Its first branch appears to pre-empt the whole in a compressed form, and has thus been puzzling scholars for more than a century.... more...
Eyrbyggja Saga
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableAn Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. more...
Fagrskinna, a catalogue of the Kings of Norway
BRILL 2004; US$ 155.00This work includes the first complete translation of a 13th-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the 12th centuries. This translation preserves many of the metrical features of this complex verse form, which are explained in the commentary. more...
From Romanticism to Critical Theory
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 50.95From Romanticism to Critical Theory explores the philosophical origins of literary theory via the tradition of German philosophy that began with the Romantic reaction to Kant. It traces the continuation of the Romantic tradition of Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel and Schleiermacher, in Heidegger's approaches to art and thruth, and in the Critical Theory... more...
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics
Boydell & Brewer 2005; US$ 99.00Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia. more...









