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  • A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Cultureby Rory McTurk

    Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008; US$ 219.95

    This 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, such as the sagas of Icelandic bishops and the fantasy sagas Looks at the ways Old Norse-Icelandic literature is used by modern writers, artists and film directors, both within and outside Scandinavia Sets Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in its wider cultural context more...

  • Icelanders and the Kings of Norwayby Patricia Pires Boulhosa

    BRILL 2005; US$ 164.00

    The book discusses the relation between the Icelanders and the mediaeval Norwegian kings, as it appears in sagas and legal texts. By reassessing legal material and the sagas of Möğruvallabók, it finds the Icelanders partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power. more...

  • Old Norse-Icelandic Literatureby Heather O'Donoghue

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 129.95

    From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. An introduction helps readers to appreciate the language and culture of the first settlers in Iceland. Looks at the reception of Old-Norse-Icelandic literature over the ages, as views of the vikings have changed. Shows how a whole range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by Old Norse-Icelandic literature. more...

  • Analecta Septentrionaliaby Wilhelm Heizmann; Heinrich Beck; Klaus Böldl

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 280.00

    Compared to other medieval philologies, the particular nature of the literature of the North, and in particular of Iceland, has always meant that the study of Old Norse languages must be interdisciplinary and rely on methodical variety. This volume, published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the Munich old Norse scholar, Kurt Schier, contains some three dozen studies on the mythology, history of religion, literature and poetry of the North, as well as runic and onomastic studies, and so reflects the broad thematic spectrum of modern old Nordic studies. more...

  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Sagaby Margaret Clunies Ross

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00

    Guides students through the texts and contexts of the medieval Scandinavian saga. more...

  • Kings' Sagas and Norwegian Historyby Shami Ghosh

    BRILL 2011; US$ 166.00

    Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research. more...

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