The Cambridge history of old Norse-Icelandic literature

History : Iceland from the settlement to 1400 CE / Haki Antonsson -- Manuscripts and textual culture / Emily Lethbridge -- Poetic language, form and metre / R.D. Fulk -- Theoretical approaches / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Reception / Verena Höfig -- Landscape and material culture / Jane Harrison -- Mythol...

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Weitere Verfasser: O'Donoghue, Heather (HerausgeberIn), Parker, Eleanor Catherine (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia, New Delhi, India, Singapore Cambridge University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:History : Iceland from the settlement to 1400 CE / Haki Antonsson -- Manuscripts and textual culture / Emily Lethbridge -- Poetic language, form and metre / R.D. Fulk -- Theoretical approaches / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Reception / Verena Höfig -- Landscape and material culture / Jane Harrison -- Mythological poetry / Judy Quinn -- Heroic poetry / Carolyne Larrington -- Fornaldarsögur / Annette Lassen -- Íslendingasögur / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Poets' sagas / Alison Finlay -- Prosimetrum in the Íslendingasögur / Heather O'Donoghue -- Court poetry / Diana Whaley -- Conversion and literature / Christopher Abram -- Saints' lives / Siân Grønlie -- Christian poetry / Kirsten Wolf -- Homilies and Christian instruction / Jonas Wellendorf -- Biskupa sögur / Ásdís Egilsdóttir -- Kings' sagas / Erin Michelle Goeres -- Diaspora sagas / Judith Jesch -- Riddarasögur / Sif Ríkharðsdóttir -- Rímur / M.J. Driscoll -- The prose Edda / Kevin J. Wanner -- Samtíðarsögur / Ármann Jakobsson -- Learned literature / Guðrún Nordal -- Grágás and the legal culture of commonwealth Iceland / William Ian Miller.
"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"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 561-612
Beschreibung:XIII, 634 Seiten
ISBN:9781108486811
978-1-108-48681-1
9781108708333
978-1-108-70833-3