"An in-depth, accessible history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this book provides analysis of all key genres in this celebrated body of writing and of their literary and historical contexts. Through essays by internationally distinguished scholars, it presents a fresh, unified, authoritative guide for specialists, students and general readers"--
"An in-depth, accessible history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this book provides analysis of all key genres in this celebrated body of writing and of their literary and historical contexts. Through essays by internationally distinguished scholars, it presents a fresh, unified, authoritative guide for specialists, students and general readers"--
Introduction Part I. Contexts: 1. History: Iceland from the settlement to 1400 CE Haki Antonsson 2. Manuscripts and textual culture Emily Lethbridge 3. Poetic language, form and metre R. D. Fulk 4. Theoretical approaches Torfi H. Tulinius 5. Reception Verena Höfig 6. Landscape and material culture Jane Harrison Part II. The Distant Past: 7. Mythological poetry Judy Quinn 8. Heroic poetry Carolyne Larrington 9. Fornaldarsögur Annette Lassen Part III. The Saga Age: 10. Íslendingasögur Margaret Clunies Ross 11. Poets' sagas Alison Finlay 12. Prosimetrum in the Íslendingasögur Heather O'Donoghue 13. Court poetry Diana Whaley Part IV. The New Christian World: 14. Conversion and literature Christopher Abram 15. Saints' lives Siân Grønlie 16. Christian poetry Kirsten Wolf 17. Homilies and Christian instruction Jonas Wellendorf 18. Biskupa sögur Ásdís Egilsdóttir Part V. Beyond Iceland: 19. Kings' sagas Erin Michelle Goeres 20. Diaspora sagas Judith Jesch 21. Riddarasögur Sif Ríkharðsdóttir 22. Rímur M. J. Driscoll Part VI. Compilations: 23. The Prose Edda Kevin J. Wanner 24. Samtíðarsögur Ármann Jakobsson 25. Learned literature Guðrún Nordal 26. Grágás and the legal culture of Commonwealth Iceland William Ian Miller.
Introduction Part I. Contexts: 1. History: Iceland from the settlement to 1400 CE Haki Antonsson 2. Manuscripts and textual culture Emily Lethbridge 3. Poetic language, form and metre R. D. Fulk 4. Theoretical approaches Torfi H. Tulinius 5. Reception Verena Höfig 6. Landscape and material culture Jane Harrison Part II. The Distant Past: 7. Mythological poetry Judy Quinn 8. Heroic poetry Carolyne Larrington 9. Fornaldarsögur Annette Lassen Part III. The Saga Age: 10. Íslendingasögur Margaret Clunies Ross 11. Poets' sagas Alison Finlay 12. Prosimetrum in the Íslendingasögur Heather O'Donoghue 13. Court poetry Diana Whaley Part IV. The New Christian World: 14. Conversion and literature Christopher Abram 15. Saints' lives Siân Grønlie 16. Christian poetry Kirsten Wolf 17. Homilies and Christian instruction Jonas Wellendorf 18. Biskupa sögur Ásdís Egilsdóttir Part V. Beyond Iceland: 19. Kings' sagas Erin Michelle Goeres 20. Diaspora sagas Judith Jesch 21. Riddarasögur Sif Ríkharðsdóttir 22. Rímur M. J. Driscoll Part VI. Compilations: 23. The Prose Edda Kevin J. Wanner 24. Samtíðarsögur Ármann Jakobsson 25. Learned literature Guðrún Nordal 26. Grágás and the legal culture of Commonwealth Iceland William Ian Miller.
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