University of Eastern Finland, 2010 — 236 p. The purpose of this study is to find out how the image of 'otherness' in the kings' sagas reflects the mental worldview of the Norse-Icelandic cultural sphere at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The main investigation also tries to answer how the Norse-Icelandic cultural sphere defined its group boundary/boundaries and group...
Cornell University Press, 2006. — 248 p. In this eagerly awaited book, Theodore M. Andersson, a leading scholar of the Norse sagas, introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1280, a crucial period that witnessed a gradual shift of emphasis from tales of adventure and personal distinction to the analysis of political and historical...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. — 276 p. — (Islandica 43). Brynhild is easily the most compelling figure in early Germanic literature and is central to our understanding of the heroic mentality. For a century and a half, scholars have studied the story of her love for Sigurd, and this book brings their findings together in English for the first time. 'The legend sings...
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 2012. — X+228 p. — (Islandica 55). "The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas" (1200–1250) is a study of the genesis of Old Icelandic prose literature from its roots in oral tradition to the compilation of key early sagas at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Theodore M. Andersson devotes special attention to the Icelandic...
Cornell University Library, 2016. — 218 p. — (Islandica 59). In "The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130–1265)", Theodore M. Andersson offers an orientation to the category of Icelandic sagas known as "kings' sagas," a genre of Old Norse-Icelandic prose literature less known than the somewhat later sagas of early Icelanders and their extended families. The kings'-saga genre...
D.S. Brewer, 2018. — XIV+258 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 3). The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation were fundamental in the Middle Ages. Surprisingly, however, this topic, as reflected in Old Norse literature, has received limited critical attention.This book addresses this lacunain the scholarship, from two major perspectives. Firstly, it examines how the...
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 2000. — 595 p. — (Proceedings of the 11th International Saga Conference, 2-7 July 2000, University of Sydney). This volume is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars from diverse fields. Most of the essays were presented in an earlier form at the 11th. International Saga Conference in Sydney in July 2000. It...
Walter de Gruyter, 2000. — VIII+328 p. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 24). Mit dieser Festschrift ehren Herausgeber und Autoren einen Fachkollegen, dessen wissenschaftliches Werk hohe internationale Anerkennung gefunden hat. In der Tradition der Leipziger Nordistik stehend, galt Rolf Hellers Aufmerksamkeit insbesondere den isländischen...
University of Oxford, 2018. — 446 p. This thesis demonstrates how animals and humans are interconnected in Old Norse literature. The two categories are both constructed and challenged in a variety of ways, depending on the textual genre and animal species. It thus reveals medieval Norse-Icelandic ideas, values, and beliefs about animals. The thesis is theoretical, comparative,...
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2019. — 244 p. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 65). Karl der Große gehört zu den dynamischsten literarischen Gestalten des europäischen Mittelalters. Die altfranzösische Karlsdichtung wurde dabei in kompilierter Form auch im Norden rezipiert: Als 'Karlamagnús saga' liegt sie im Altwestnordischen vor, als 'Karl Magnus' im Altschwedischen und...
D.S. Brewer, 2021. — 276 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 8). An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value. The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws,...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 232 p. — (Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS) 11). Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin Evangelium Nicodemi text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia.
Växjö: Växjö University Press, 2008. — 445 p.
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Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012. — ix, 182 p. Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga is the first book to investigate both the relation between gender and violence in the Old Norse Poetic Edda and key family and contemporary sagas, and the interrelated nature of these genres. Beginning with an analysis of eddaic attitudes to heroic violence and its gendered...
Cornell University Press, 1985. — 394 p. — (Islandica 45). The current revival of interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Even readers with a knowledge of Old Norse and Icelandic have found these subjects...
D.S. Brewer, 2022. — 262 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 11). Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions of the...
University of Iceland, 2023. — 64 p. This thesis discusses the relationship between pagan and Christian magic in the Íslendingasögur. Inspired by the work of Jacques Le Goff which makes a distinction between three categories of supernatural: one of divine origin (miraculosus), another of demonic origin (magicus), and a third category which is neither (mirabilus). Francis...
D.S. Brewer, 2020. — 287 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 4). Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas,...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 192 p. — (Oxford English Monographs). This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders - and taking into account a number of little-studied sagas as well as the more well-known works - it comprehensively interrogates the construction, operation, and...
Íslendingabók - Kristni saga. Translated by Siân Grønlie. — Viking Society for Northern Research, University College of London, 2006. — 97 p. — (Viking Society for Northern Rerearch Text Series. Volume XVIII).
Christianity, it has been said, is 'a religion of historians', both because its sacred books are works of history and because it provides a historical framework - between...
Meltemi, 2022. — 168 p. Nel corso del Medioevo, in Islanda e in Norvegia sono state scritte decine di saghe, testi narrativi in prosa che ripercorrono le imprese di antenati leggendari, temerari vichinghi, santi vescovi e cavalieri cortesi. Per molti versi, questo imponente corpus di narrazioni rappresenta ancora oggi un enigma: com’è possibile che una piccola comunità come...
Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 1978. How Dóttkvætt Works. Poets on Poetry. Mythological Verse. Celebration and Denunciation. War Poetry. The Versified Travelogue. Men and Women.
D.S.Brewer, 2022. — 234 p. An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures. The "Viking Age" of medieval Scandinavia, with its heathen religion and heroic literature, continues to fascinate readers, writers, students, scholars, poets, artists, and creators of all kinds around...
Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 1983. — 368 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 12). Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit einer Gruppe von isländischen Prosaerzählungen, die zusammenfassend als 'Märchensagas' bezeichnet werden. Im Mittelpunkt steht die literaturwissenschaftliche Beschreibung dieser allgemein wenig bekannten, dabei nicht zumindest...
D. S. Brewer, 2017. — 304 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 2). The relationship between that most popular of medieval genres, the saint's life, and the sagas of the Icelanders is investigated here. Although saga heroes are rarely saints themselves - indeed rather the reverse - they interact with saints in a variety of ways: as ancestors or friends of saints, as noble...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2023. — 319 p. — (The Northern Medieval World). This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife...
Akademie-Verlag, 1976. — 159 p. — (Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-historische Klasse 65, 1). Der Zweck der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die Konzeption des Sagaverfassers aufzudecken und einen Überblick zu geben über das vom Laxd.-Dichter entlehnte Erzählmaterial und über die Art seiner Verarbeitung. Erst in der Zusammenschau des...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 263 p. — (Islandica 65). From Rus' to Rímur, volume 65 in the Islandica series and simultaneously an issue in the occasional journal New Norse Studies, offers six contributions that range across Europe from East to West and across three categories: "Historical Studies," "Literary Studies," and "New Editions." The volume opens with a...
Routledge, 2017. — 376 p. The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. "The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas" presents a detailed...
Routledge, 2017. — 376 p. The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. "The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas" presents a detailed...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 344 p. — (University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection). Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set of heroic figures shared by the Germanic tribes in Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland...
D.S. Brewer, 2020. — 278 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 6). The Icelandic mappae mundi (maps of the world), drawn between c. 1225 and c. 1400, are contemporary with the breathtaking rise of its vernacular literary culture, and provide important insights into the Icelanders' capacious geographical awareness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. However, in...
De Gruyter, 2025. — xii, 269 p. — (Memory and the Medieval North 3). The objective of this book is to analyse the Old Icelandic sagas dealing with the twelfth to fourteenth centuries – the secular contemporary sagas and the bishops’ sagas – from the perspective of cultural memory studies. This approach foregrounds their function as sources of the late medieval Icelanders’...
A. Francke Verlag, 2002. — 404 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 33). Die Þiðreks saga af Bern ist eine altnorwegische Saga über Dietrich von Bern und seine zwölf Kämpen. Stofflich basiert sie in der Hauptsache auf (verlorenen) niederdeutschen Quellen, ist aber erst in einer norwegischen Pergamenthandschrift aus dem 13. Jahrhundert greifbar. Die Studie rückt den...
A. Francke Verlag, 2013. — 266 p. — (Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 52). n den originalen Riddarasögur, die sich im spätmittelalterlichen Island großer Beliebtheit erfreuten, erleben reisende Ritter Abenteuer in exotischer Ferne. Sie kämpfen gegen Ungeheuer, treten in Wettstreit mit selbstbewussten Mädchenkönigen und kommen auf ihren Reisen bis nach Indien oder Afrika....
D.S. Brewer, 2020. — 390 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 5). We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and poetry alike; yet its definition has been elusive and its implications often left unexplored. This volume opens up...
University of California Press, 1976. — 288 p. Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and...
Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. — 364 p. — (Ergänzungsbände Zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 113). This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005. — 582 p. — ISBN: 9780631235026. This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in the field, over a third of whom are Icelanders. At the same time, it conveys a sense of the mainland Scandinavian origins of the Icelandic people, and reflects the ongoing contact between Iceland and...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 248 p. — (The North Atlantic World: Land and Sea as Cultural Space, AD 400-1900, 3). Medieval Icelandic literature has often been reduced to the supposedly realist Íslendingasögur and their main protagonists at the expense of other genres and characters. Indeed, such a focus obscures and erases the importance of those beings and narratives that move...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 254 p. Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity – it only means that monstrosity is conceived of differently....
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 368 p. Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a TIFF over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated, Njal and his family...
Cornell University Press, 2023. — 360 p. — (Myth and Poetics 2). The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of this fascinating world in case studies and...
Brepols Publishers, 2024. — 224 p. — (Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5). What did the body mean for inhabitants of the medieval Norse-speaking world? How was the physical body viewed? Where did the boundary lie between corporality and the psychological or spiritual aspects of humanity? And how did such an understanding tie in with popular literary motifs such as...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 650 p. A landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized experts offer the latest in-depth analysis of every significant genre and group of texts in the corpus, including sagas and skaldic verse,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest literature. Here, Heather O'Donoghue skilfully examines the notions of time and the singular textual voice of the Sagas, offering a fresh perspective on the foundational texts of Old Norse...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest literature. Here, Heather O'Donoghue skilfully examines the notions of time and the singular textual voice of the Sagas, offering a fresh perspective on the foundational texts of Old Norse...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. — 254 p. 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...
Harvard University Press, 1959. — 248 p. — (Harvard Germanic Studies 2). The pidriks saga is a long compilation of almost all Germanic heroic legends known in contemporary Germany, organized loosely about the most popular German legendary hero, Dietrich of Bern, and set chiefly at the court of Attila, conceived of as having been at Soest in modern Westphalia. The Norwegians who...
Narr Francke Attempto, 2024. — 396 p. — (Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 73). Die spätmittelalterlichen sog. ,postklassischen' Íslendingasögur wurden von der Forschung lange vernachlässigt und als wertlose Nachahmungen abgewertet. Die vorliegende Studie, die an die kulturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Sagaforschung anknüpft, entlarvt dies als Mythos in der Wissenschaft. Sie...
University of Florida Press, 2020. — 230 p. — (New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions). Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead...
University of Texas Press, 1969. — 378 p. The papers published in this volume were written in honor of Professor Lee M. Hollander. Focusing on Old Norse literature and mythology, they illustrate the various facets of his creative activity in the fields in which he has made his major contributions. But Dr. Hollander is also an indefatigable translator of Scandinavian and German...
Brepols, 2007. — 470 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 18). This volume presents twenty essays by leading scholars of Old Norse which bring into focus the nature of learned traditions – both oral and written – in medieval Scandinavia and the interpretation and re-interpretation of them over time. Theoretical frameworks for understanding Old Norse literature...
A. Francke Verlag, 2002. — 298 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 35). Der seit dem Mittelalter in ganz Europa verbreitete 'Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolfi' hat seine Spuren auch im spätmittelalterlichen Skandinavien hinterlassen. Bei der Gestaltung einer Kirche in Uppland nahm sich Schwedens berühmtester Maler des 15. Jahrhunderts, Meister Albert, des Themas an. Eine...
Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 1976. — 162 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 5). Nachdem sich die Sagaforschung Jahrzehnte hindurch bevorzugt Entstehungs-, Überlieferungs- und Abhängigkeitsfragen gewidmet hat, ist seit einiger Zeit in wachsendem Maße ein Interesse auch für die Untersuchung der Strukturen und Erzählform von Texten festzustellen, die zu den bedeutendsten...
Queens University, 2014. — 315 p. This dissertation examines the relationship between wisdom and identity in Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature. At present, the study of medieval wisdom is largely tangential to the study of proverbs and maxims. This dissertation makes wisdom its primary object of study; it sees wisdom not just as a literary category, but also as a...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 352 p. This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 537 p. The Old Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 537 p. The Old Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time....
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 266 p. — (Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes 1). The Icelandic sagas have long been famous for their alleged realism, and within this conventional view, references to the supernatural have often been treated as anomalies. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, such elements were in fact an important part of Old Norse literature and tradition, and their study...
München: Utzverlag, 2021. — 314 p. — (Münchner Nordistische Studien 50). The 9 essays collected in this volume are the result of a workshop for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies held at the Institute for Nordic Philology (LMU) in Munich in December 2018. The contributors focus on 'unwanted', illicit, neglected, and...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 688 p. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 131). Central to the Færeyinga Saga, whose themes and narrative strategies are analyzed here, are portraits of political actors embroiled in Faroese power struggles during the Viking Age. Its ambiguous narrative strategy requires readers to make their own interpretations. It thus...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 208 p. — (Trends in Medieval Philology 34). While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging...
Narr Francke Attempto, 2014. — 250 p. — (Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 56). Das Buch bietet eine überlieferungsgeschichtlich orientierte Analyse des gesamten handschriftlichen Textkorpus der isländischen Prosaerzählungen ivens saga, Erex saga und Parcevals saga, die nordische Adaptionen altfranzösischer höfischer Versromane darstellen. Sie werden innerhalb der Altnordistik...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 325 p. This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, Gísli Sigurðsson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral...
De Gruyter, 1990. — 660 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 4). Table of contents: Vorbemerkung Einleitung I. Die Wurzeln der altnordischen Kosmographie in der europäischen Tradition A. Lateinische und altnordische enzyklopädische Literatur B. Mappae mundi als Teilbereich altnordischer Kosmographie II. Traditionen und Innovationen in den...
Brepols Pub, 2023. — 230 p. — (Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes 3). "At the heart of any story of metamorphosis lies the issue of identity, and the tales of the werwulf (lit. 'man-wolf') are just as much about the wolf as about the man. What are the constituents of the human in general? What symbolic significance do they hold? How do they differ for different types of human? How...
London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 1958. — 139 p. I have great pleasure in presenting Professor Einar Ol. Sveinsson's Dating the Icelandic Sagas. This is a pioneer work, for no general treatment of the subject has been published since modern methods of criticism have been applied. Readers will already be aware of the profundity and the humane qualities of Professor...
Schach Paul, Turville-Petre E.O.G. (eds.). — Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. — 230 p. Dr. Einar Ólafur Sveinsson, Professor in the University of Iceland and Director of the Manuscript Institute of Iceland, has been recognized as the foremost authority on Njals saga ever since 1933, when he published his learned treatise Um Njálu (Concerning Njals Saga),1 In that...
Revised by Einar G. Pétursson. Translated by Benedikt Benedikz. Edited by Anthony Faulkes — Viking Society for Northern Research, University College of London, 2003, ISBN: 0 903521 53 9. — 320 p. — (Viking Society for Northern Rerearch Text Series, General Editors Anthony Faulkes and Richard Perkins, Volume XVI).
De Gruyter, 2021. — 330 p. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 128). In the pop-cultural imagination, medieval Iceland is associated with an exaggerated, warrior-like image of masculinity. Much less-known are the portrayals of figures that are branded as unmanly in the Sagas of the Icelanders, which reveal how fiercely contested social ideas of...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 276 p. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 21). This Festschrift bears impressive testimony to the fascination which Icelandic and Norwegian sagas and Faroese ballads still exercise on researchers. Fifteen original papers examine central literary and historical aspects of Nordic sagas and ballads. The papers are published in...
Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 1997. — 242 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 25). This book intends to compare prescriptive metrics at its inception in Ireland and Scandinavia, concentrating on stanzaic-syllabic verse. It is no new idea to compare the metrical systems of the two countries. In this work I shall not attempt to compare the two systems empirically and in...
Cornell University Library, 2014. — X+326 p. — (Islandica 57). Translation, revised and updated, of "Skáldið í skriftinni: Snorri Sturluson og "Egils saga"", by Torfi H. Tulinius, published 2004 by Hið Íslenzka Bókmenntafélag and Reykjavíkur Akademían. "Egils saga", composed some eight hundred years ago to relate the life and times of Egill Skallagrímsson, the Viking poet and...
Clarendon Press, 1967. — 278 p. Many books and papers have been published in the last fifty years about the origins of various branches of Icelandic literature, and in particular about the origins of 'Kings’ Sagas' and 'Icelanders’ Sagas'. Much of this work has been valuable, although often speculative and controversial. In this book I have attempted to avoid controversy and...
University of Iceland, 2023. — 57 p. The marginalia can offer surprising insight into the scribe’s life and the culture that surrounded the creation of a manuscript. There are articles and books written on continental European marginalia texts and images but when it comes to Icelandic manuscripts, there are only several papers which discuss the marginalia text and none which...
De Gruyter, 2025. — 218 p. — (Memory and the Medieval North 4). This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts: AM 589a–f 4to and AM 586 4to. It situates the manuscripts within their literary, media, and historical contexts to read the legendary sagas (or...
Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. — 577 S. — ISBN: 3-11-016330-6. Vorwort zum Nachdruck. Abkürzungen. Vorbemerkungen. Die heidnische Zeit . Früh- und Kleinformen der Dichtung. Eddalieder. Die skaldische Dichtung. Die Zeit nach der Bekehrung bis zur Mitte des zwölften Jahrhunderts . Einleitung: die religiösen und politischen Verhältnisse. Die skaldische Dichtung. Eddalieder. Die...
Narr Francke Attempto, 2016. — 266 p. — (Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 57). Die isländische Literatur hat heute eine zentrale Funktion für die Identitätsstiftung, der Beginn dieses Identitätdiskurses ist bisher jedoch ungeklärt. Diese Frage greift der Band auf und diskutiert mit dem Blick auf die Literaturproduktion von 1100-1300 mithilfe kulturwissenschaftlicher...
Francke, A., 2014. — 130 p. — (Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 53). Diese Untersuchung geht aus komparatistischer Sicht der Frage nach, welche Rolle das Epos in den volkssprachlichen Literaturen des Mittelalters gespielt hat. Antike und Christentum botenhierfür beeindruckende Leitbilder, dazu kamen noch verschiedene einheimische Überlieferungen. In der ersten Hälfte der...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 379 p. — (Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic series 10). The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.
Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 1998. — 308 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 26). Die Materialgrundlage des Buches bilden fünf aus dem Lateinischen übersetzte Texte, die bisher in der Forschung als „pseudohistorische Übersetzungswerke" bezeichnet wurden: die Romverja saga, Breta sögur, Trojumanna saga, Gydinga saga und Alexanders saga. Der Vergleich zwischen den...
Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 1991. — 182 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 20). Abgeleitet vom Neuisländischen wird heute der Begriff 'þáttr' allgemein als Terminus für kurze, novellenartige Erzählungen, die in der Regel von Isländern handeln, gebraucht. Innerhalb der 'Flateyjarbók' sind 60 Erzählabschnitte als 'þættir' überschrieben, wobei jedoch der Kompilator der...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2018. — 378 p. — (The Northern Medieval World. On the Margins of Europe). Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occupies a special place in Icelandic cultural history. The manuscript tradition is exceptionally rich and extensive. The oldest extant manuscripts date to only a couple of decades...
М.: Наука, 2004. — 424 с. — ISBN 5-02-033222-4. Имеется слой OCR. Монография посвящена "прядям об исландцах", прославленному не менее саг, но до сих пор почти не исследованному жанру богатейшей древнескандинавской литературы. Герой пряди - простой исландец, вступая в конфликт с власть имущими и полагаясь на собственные способности, добивается жизненного успеха: богатства,...
М.: Наука, 2004. — 424 с. — ISBN 5-02-033222-4. Монография посвящена "прядям об исландцах", прославленному не менее саг, но до сих пор почти не исследованному жанру богатейшей древнескандинавской литературы. Герой пряди - простой исландец, вступая в конфликт с власть имущими и полагаясь на собственные способности, добивается жизненного успеха: богатства, общественного положения...
М.: РГГУ, 1999. 752 с.
Поэзия скальдов - самая ранняя в средневековой Европе личная поэзия, зарождение которой происходит в рамках исконной традиции. Именно поэтому изучение ее характерных особенностей представляет большой интерес для исторической поэтики. В центре внимания монографии - проблема соотношения традиционности и индивидуально-авторского отношения к творчеству в...
М.: РГГУ, 1999. 752 с. Поэзия скальдов - самая ранняя в средневековой Европе личная поэзия, зарождение которой происходит в рамках исконной традиции. Именно поэтому изучение ее характерных особенностей представляет большой интерес для исторической поэтики. В центре внимания монографии - проблема соотношения традиционности и индивидуально-авторского отношения к творчеству в...
Пер. с древнеисл. и комм. Ю. Полуэктова. — Москва: Альма-Матер, 2024. — 557 с. — (Эпохи. Средние века. Тексты). — ISBN 978-5-904994-73-0. «Сага о йомсвикингах» - выдающееся произведение древнеисландской литературы - повествует о событиях первой половины XI в. на территории Швеции, на Руси и в сопредельных странах, однако она насыщена фантастическими сюжетами, а ее персонажами,...
Варшава: Типография С. Оргельбранда, 1872. — vi, 137 с. Кроме "поэзии скальдов", Левестам рассматривает и "поэзию эддическую", т.е. германский героический эпос. Различие между эддической и скальдической поэзией уловимо — здесь, по словам академика А.Н. Веселовского, совершается "переход от певца к поэту", от эпики к авторскому творчеству, "от неосознанного к осознанному...
Издание подготовили С. В. Петров, М. И. Стеблин-Каменский. — Ленинград: Наука, 1979. — 186 с. — (Литературные памятники). В книгу вошли стихотворения более сорока средневековых скандинавских поэтов-скальдов IX—XII вв. Переведены на русский язык впервые. В этом издании впервые сделана попытка перевести стихи скальдов размером подлинника, т. е. с воспроизведением всего того...
Ленинград: Наука, 1971. — 140 с. Эта книга – о духовном мире «саг об исландцах», самых замечательных произведений исландской литературы и самых своеобразных памятников европейского средневековья. Автор решается повторить то, что он писал в предисловии к «Культуре Исландии», вышедшей в этой же серии в 1967 г.: «Популярная форма изложения принята в книге не потому, что она дает...
Л.: Наука, Ленинградское отделение, 1984. — 248 с. Эта книжка - о духовном мире "саг об исландцах", самых своеобразных памятников европейского средневековья. Очень много написано об этих сагах, и они подробно исследованы со многих точек зрения. Однако их духовный мир, выраженные в них представления о правде, человеческой личности, форме и содержании, добре и зле, времени и...
Учеб. пособие для филол. фак. ун-тов. — Москва: Высшая школа, 1979. — 192 с. В основе настоящего пособия лежит курс лекций, читанный автором в продолжение тридцати трех лет студентам-скандинавистам Ленинградского университета. В своих книгах (Культура Исландии. Л., 1967; Мир саги. Л., 1971; Миф. Л., 1976; Историческая поэтика. Л., 1978) автор обращался к частным аспектам...
Ленинград: Наука. Ленинградское отделение,1984. — 248 с. Эта книжка - о духовном мире "саг об исландцах", самых своеобразных памятников европейского средневековья. Очень много написано об этих сагах, и они подробно исследованы со многих точек зрения. Однако их духовный мир, выраженные в них представления о правде, человеческой личности, форме и содержании, добре и зле, времени...
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