Harriman House, 2021. — 262 p. Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years later. Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the pastoral country to its knees, he became the lead investigator into some of the largest financial...
D. S. Brewer, 2021. — 400 p. Icelanders venerated numerous saints, both indigenous and from overseas, in the Middle Ages. However, although its literary elite was well acquainted with contemporary Continental currents in hagiographic compositions, theological discussions, and worship practices, much of the history of the learned European networks through which the Icelandic...
Brill, 2020. — 352 p. — (The Northern World 80). Chris Callow’s Landscape, Tradition and Power critically examines the evidence for socio-political developments in medieval Iceland during the so-called Commonwealth period. The book compares regions in the west and north-east of Iceland because these regions had differing human and physical geographies, and contrasting levels of...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 384 p. Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 384 p. Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we...
Almenna Bókafélagið, 2021. — 162 p. A brief history of the left-wing socialist movement in Iceland which formed a faction in the Labour Party in the 1920s, and which was formally organised in the Communist Party of Iceland in 1930, in the Socialist Unity Party in 1938–1968, and in the People’s Alliance in 1968–1998.
Ed. by V. Finsen. — København: Berling, 1852. — 250 p. Dette genoptryk udsendes som en hilsen til Island i 1100-året for landets bebyggelse. Initiativet til udgivelsen udgik fra professor Peter Foote, University College London, og professor Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Odense Universitet, og Odense Universitetsforlag påtog sig opgaven med aktiv støtte af konsul Arne Nielsen og...
Ed. by V. Finsen. — København: Berling, 1852. — 228 p. Dette genoptryk udsendes som en hilsen til Island i 1100-året for landets bebyggelse. Initiativet til udgivelsen udgik fra professor Peter Foote, University College London, og professor Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Odense Universitet, og Odense Universitetsforlag påtog sig opgaven med aktiv støtte af konsul Arne Nielsen og...
Trans. by O. Elton, ed. by E. Haflidason. London: Rivingtons, 1890. - 180 p.
This short translation had the honour of encouragement from the veteran Norse scholar so lately lost, Gudbrand Vigfdsson. His own heavy work did not prevent him from generously offering to revise these sheets. But though his death interrupted everything, his edition of the text (published in Copenhagen...
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — 340 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 120). Theft and robbery are reciprocal actions with diverse literary applications. Though they figure centrally in Viking literature, scholars have paid them scant attention. This book shows that the crimes are gateways to the Sagas of Icelanders and their narrative...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 293 p. While Iceland is the second largest inhabited island in Europe, with only 313,000 inhabitants in 2007, the Icelanders form one of the smallest independent nations in the world. Around two-thirds of the population lives in the capital, Reykjavík, and its suburbs, while the rest is spread around the inhabitable area of the country. Until fairly...
Brill, 2021. — x, 337 p. — (The Northern World 91). Dominican Resonances in Medieval Iceland explores the life and legacy of Jón Halldórsson, Bishop of Skálholt (1322–39), a Dominican who had studied the liberal arts in Paris and canon law in Bologna. Combining different disciplinary approaches (literary and intellectual history, manuscript studies, musicology), this book aims...
Brill, 2018. — 388 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 119). During the summer of 1627, corsairs from Algiers and Salé, Morocco, undertook the long voyage to Iceland where they raided the eastern and southern regions of the country, resulting in the deaths of around thirty people, and capturing about 400 further individuals who were sold on the slave markets. Around 10% of the...
Brill, 2021. — 342 p. — (The Northern World 90). In Force of Words , Haraldur Hreinsson examines the social and political significance of the Christian religion as the Roman Church was taking hold in medieval Iceland in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. By way of diverse sources, primarily hagiography and sermons but also material sources, the author shows how Christian...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. — 235 p. In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was the Lutheran minister Reverend Olafur Egilsson. Reverend Olafur (born in the same year as William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei) wrote The Travels to...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 342 p. Iceland demonstrates most of the characteristics of a modern liberal democracy. It has maintained political stability through a democratic process which enjoys universal legitimacy. Rapid economic modernization has also secured its inhabitants one of the highest living standards in the world, and a comprehensive...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 342 p. Iceland demonstrates most of the characteristics of a modern liberal democracy. It has maintained political stability through a democratic process which enjoys universal legitimacy. Rapid economic modernization has also secured its inhabitants one of the highest living standards in the world, and a comprehensive...
Oxford: Routledge, 2024. — 220 p. — (Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture). In the ninth century, at the beginning of this account, Iceland was uninhabited save for fowl and smaller Arctic animals. In the middle of the sixteenth century, by the end of this history, it had embarked on a course that led to the creation of a small country on the periphery of Europe. The...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2000. — 432 p. — ISBN 978-0-8166-3589-4. The only comprehensive history of Iceland available in English. Unique among European societies, Iceland was founded late, in the Viking Age, and has copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country’s premier historian, chronicles the age of the sagas, consulting...
Mál og menning, 2000. — 73 p. Íslendingar hafa löngum verið áhugasamir um sögu þjóðarinnar, atburði, mannfólk og lífið í landinu frá landnámi til okkar daga. Hér birtist heildstætt og handhægt yfirlit Íslandssögunnar í hnotskurn í ljósum og hnitmiðuðum texta og fjölda mynda, kjörið til glöggvunar og upprifjunar.
Routledge, 2022. — 259 p. This book provides an overview of medieval monasticism in Iceland, from its dawn to its downfall during the Reformation. Blending the evidence from material remains and written documents, Monastic Iceland highlights the realities of everyday life in the male and female monasteries operated in Iceland. The book describes the incorporation of monasticism...
Routledge, 2019. — 208 p. Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities. Examining Iceland’s response to its collapse into bankruptcy in 2008, the...
Brill, 2017. — 322 p. — (The Northern World, Vol. 81). In Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c. 870 – c. 1100: Memory, History and Identity , Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of Icelandic society from the earliest settlements to the twelfth century. Through a series of thematic studies, the book discusses the place of Norway in Icelandic cultural memory and how...
Turnhout, 2014. — 225 p. — (Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 3). This volume examines the performative and ideological functions of texts dealing with magic in contexts of social and political conflict. While the rites, representations, and agents of medieval Scandinavian magic have been the object of numerous studies, little attention has been given to magic as a...
University of Chicago Press, 2009. — 415 p. Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex...
Glasgow: Jackson, Son & Company, 1957. — 35 p. To be invited to give a lecture in memory of William Paton Ker, at the illustrious University of his native city, is an honour for which all the scholars who have received it will certainly have been deeply grateful. None of my predecessors, however, can have felt this quite in the same way as I do. And let me say straight out,...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 326 p. — (The Northern Medieval World). Medieval Iceland is known for the fascinating body of literary works it produced, from ornate court poetry to mythological treatises to sagas of warrior-poets and feud culture. This book investigates the institutions and practices of education which lay behind not only this literary corpus, but the whole of medieval...
Brill, 2016. — 217 p. — (The Northern World 72). In The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland, Erika Sigurdson provides a history of the fourteenth-century Icelandic Church with a focus on the the social status of elite clerics following the introduction of benefices to Iceland. In this period, the elite clergy developed a shared identity based in part on universal clerical...
Brill, 2021. — 191 p. — (The Northern World 92). In this book Elizabeth Walgenbach argues that outlawry in medieval Iceland was a punishment shaped by the conventions of excommunication as it developed in the medieval Church. Excommunication and outlawry resemble one another, often closely, in a range of Icelandic texts, including law codes and narrative sources such as the...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 202 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). На протяжении многих столетий исландский народ играл роль хранителя культурных традиций древней Скандинавии, развивал и обогащал их. Среди произведений средневековой скандинавской литературы видное место занимает сочинение крупнейшего исландского историка Снорри Стурлусона «Хеймскрингла» («Саги о норвежских конунгах»), в...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 202 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). На протяжении многих столетий исландский народ играл роль хранителя культурных традиций древней Скандинавии, развивал и обогащал их. Среди произведений средневековой скандинавской литературы видное место занимает сочинение крупнейшего исландского историка Снорри Стурлусона «Хеймскрингла» («Саги о норвежских конунгах»),...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 202 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). На протяжении многих столетий исландский народ играл роль хранителя культурных традиций древней Скандинавии, развивал и обогащал их. Среди произведений средневековой скандинавской литературы видное место занимает сочинение крупнейшего исландского историка Снорри Стурлусона «Хеймскрингла» («Саги о норвежских конунгах»),...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 202 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). На протяжении многих столетий исландский народ играл роль хранителя культурных традиций древней Скандинавии, развивал и обогащал их. Среди произведений средневековой скандинавской литературы видное место занимает сочинение крупнейшего исландского историка Снорри Стурлусона «Хеймскрингла» («Саги о норвежских конунгах»),...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 202 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры).
На протяжении многих столетий исландский народ играл роль хранителя культурных традиций древней Скандинавии, развивал и обогащал их.
Среди произведений средневековой скандинавской литературы видное место занимает сочинение крупнейшего исландского историка Снорри Стурлусона «Хеймскрингла» («Саги о норвежских конунгах»),...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2018. — 91 с. В книге представлены статьи автора, опубликованные в последние годы в сборниках материалов различных международных и российских конференций, а также в других изданиях. Они посвящены длительной истории ознакомления русской общественности с культурой Исландии, в частности, с историей публикации переводов замечательных образцов...
Издание подготовили О.А. Смирницкая и М.И. Стеблин-Каменский; Отв. ред. М.И. Стеблин-Каменский. — Новосибирск: Наука. Сиб. отд-ние, 1976. — 175 с. — (Литературные памятники). Первое издание древнеисландского памятника XIII в. на русском языке. “Сага о Греттире” входит в обширный цикл “Саг об исландцах”. Содержание: Сага о Греттире / Пер. с древнеисланд. О.А. Смирницкой, ред....
М.: Весь Мир, 2003. — 240 с. — ISBN: 5-7777-0201-5. Эта книга, написанная известным автором и популяризатором истории Исландии Йоуном Хьяульмарссоном, широко известна в Европе. Впервые она была опубликована пятнадцать лет назад (1988), выдержала два издания и несколько допечаток. Именно ее можно по праву рассматривать как визитную карточку Исландии. Автор последовательно...
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