Format:
1 online resource (272 pages)
ISBN:
9781433707698
Content:
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 Möðruvallabók, it finds the Icelanders partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One Mediaeval Icelandic Sagas: Methodological Considerations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The attribution of the authorship of Heimskringla to Snorri Sturluson -- 3 Textual criticism and manuscript culture -- 4 Sagas as historical sources -- Chapter Two The Law of Óláfr inn Helgi -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Grágás in historical and literary studies -- 3 The Ólafslög within the Grágás (Konungsbók) -- 4 The Norwegian king' power over Icelanders -- 5 Icelanders and Norwegians -- 6 Hauldr-holdr -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter Three Documents of the Icelandic Submission -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The sagas and the Icelandic submission -- 3 The Icelandic annals and the Icelandic submission -- 4 The evidence of sagas and annals: conclusion -- 5 Gizurarsáttmáli and Gamli sáttmáli: terminology -- 6 Documents from 1400 to 1500 -- 6.1 Invocatory clause and oath -- 6.2 Introductory clause -- 6.3 Skattr and bingfararkaup -- 6.4 Summons to go abroad -- 6.5 Logmenn and sýslumenn -- 6.6 Sea-going ships -- 6.6.1 Icelandic trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- 6.7 Other clauses -- 6.8 Documents from 1400 to 1500: conclusion -- 7 Documents from 1500 to 1600 -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter Four Relations between Icelanders and the Early Rulers of Norway as Depicted in Möðruvallabók -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Möðruvallabók manuscript -- 3 Haraldr inn hárfagri and the settlement of Iceland in Egils saga -- 4 Haraldr inn hárfagri and the settlement of Iceland in the other texts of the Möðruvallabók manuscript -- 5 Finnboga saga and the settlement of Iceland -- 6 Icelanders and the Norwegian court -- 6.1 Chieftains in Iceland and Norway -- 6.2 Challenging royal power -- 6.3 The Icelandic free-men -- 6.4 The guardians of the law.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004145160
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004145160
Additional Edition:
Print version Icelanders and the Kings of Norway : Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=280602
