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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 336 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511552922
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in medieval literature 42
Content:
From the period of settlement (870–930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social setting and across a range of genres. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new literary genre which textualised their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form. The book shows that Icelanders often used their textual abilities to gain themselves political and intellectual advantage, not least in the period when the state's freedom came to an end
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c.870-1400) and their relations to literary production
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From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland
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Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture
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Óláfr Þórðarson hvítaskáld and oral poetry in the west of Iceland c.1250
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Conversation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings
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Medieval Icelandic artes poeticae
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Useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland
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Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendinga sögur) and þættir as the literary representation of a new social space
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Contemporary sagas and their social context
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Matter of the North: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland
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Romance in Iceland
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Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland
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Sagas of saints
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521631129
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521110259
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521631129
Language:
English
Subjects:
Scandinavian Studies
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511552922
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