Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.)Old Icelandic Literature and Society
Herausgeber: Clunies Ross, Margaret; Ross, Margaret Clunies; Minnis, Alastair
Introduction Margaret Clunies Ross; 1. Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (ca. 870
1400) and their relation to literary production Preben Meulengracht Sørensen; 2. From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland Judy Quinn; 3. Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture Kari Ellen Gade; 4. Øláfr Pø
arson hvítaskáld and oral poetry in the west of Iceland ca. 1250 Gísli Sigur
sson; 5. The conservation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings Margaret Clunies Ross; 6. Medieval Iceland artes poeticae Stephen Tranter; 7. A useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland Diana Whaley; 8. Sagas of Icelanders as the literary representation of a new social space Jürg Glauser; 9. The contemporary sagas and their social context Gürún Nordal; 10. The matter of the north: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland Torfi H. Tulinius; 11. Romance in Iceland Geraldine Barnes; 12. The Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland Ian Kirby; 13. Sagas of saints Margaret Cormack.
