The Story of Burnt Njal (Icelandic Saga)

Feud in the Icelandic Saga [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520341012

Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic soc

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Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga: Meanings of Time in Old Norse Literature 135021163X, 9781350211636

Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank a

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A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Islendinga Saga 0887556965, 9780887553318

The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early

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The Problem of Icelandic Saga Origins: A Historical Survey 068526663X, 9780685266632

The present study was undertaken several years ago for the purpose of providing the student of Germanic or medieval lite

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Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga: Meanings of Time in Old Norse Literature 9781788312875, 9781350167445, 9781786736314

Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank a

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The saint and the saga hero: hagiography and early Icelandic literature 9781843844815, 1843844818

"The relationship between that most popular of medieval genres, the saint's life, and the sagas of the Iceland

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The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition: A Discourse on Method 067401457X, 9780674014572

Translated by Nicholas Jones. This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic liter

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Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts 9781501514142, 9781501518539

Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of

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Primer of Icelandic language

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The Icelandic Family Saga: An Analytic Reading [Reprint 2013 ed.] 9780674729292, 9780674729285

Theodore Andersson presents the first formal analysis of the Icelandic family sagas. Isolating the structural and larger

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