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Old Icelandic literature and society
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- Creator
- edited by Margaret Clunies Ross
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521631129, 0521631122
- OCLC
- ocm42968075
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c.870-1400) and their relations to literary production / Preben Meulengracht Sørensen -- From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland / Judy Quinn -- Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture / Kari Ellen Gade -- Óláfr Þórðarson hvítaskáld and oral poetry in the west of Iceland c.1250 / Gísli Sigurðsson -- Conversation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Medieval Icelandic artes poeticae / Stephen Tranter -- Useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland / Diana Whaley -- Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendinga sögur) and þættir as the literary representation of a new social space / Jürg Glauser -- Contemporary sagas and their social context / Guðrún Nordal -- Matter of the North: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Romance in Iceland / Geraldine Barnes -- Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland / Ian Kirby -- Sagas of saints / Margaret Cormack
- Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c.870-1400) and their relations to literary production / Preben Meulengracht Sorensen -- From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland/ Judy Quinn -- Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture / Kari Ellen Gade -- Óláfr Pórdarson hvítaskáld and oral poetry in the west of Iceland c.1250 / Gísli Sigurdsson -- Conversation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Medieval Icelandic artes poeticae / Stephen Tranter -- Useful past / Diana Whaley -- Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendinga sögur) and pattir as the literary representation of a new social space / Jürg Glauser -- Contemporary sagas and their social context / Gudrún Nordal -- Matter of the North / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Romance in Iceland / Geraldine Barnes -- Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland / Ian Kirby -- Sagas of saints / Margaret Cormack