McTurk A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3738-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culturedemonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language andculture from medieval to modern times.

* * Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in thefield

* Reflects current debates among Old Norse-Icelandicscholars

* Pays attention to previously neglected areas of study, such asthe sagas of Icelandic bishops and the fantasy sagas

* Looks at the ways Old Norse-Icelandic literature is used bymodern writers, artists and film directors, both within and outsideScandinavia

* Sets Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in its widercultural context

Autoren/Hrsg.

McTurk, Rory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
Maps xii
Introduction 1
Rory McTurk
1 Archaeology of Economy and Society 7
Orri Vésteinsson
2 Christian Biography 27
Margaret Cormack
3 Christian Poetry 43
Katrina Attwood
4 Continuity? The Icelandic Sagas in Post-Medieval Times64
Jón Karl Helgason
5 Eddic Poetry 82
Terry Gunnell
6 Family Sagas 101
Vésteinn Ólason
7 Geography and Travel 119
Judith Jesch
8 Historical Background: Iceland 870-1400 136
Helgi Dorláksson
9 Historiography and Pseudo-History 155
Stefanie Würth
10 Language 173
Michael Barnes
11 Late Prose Fiction (lygiso¨gur) 190
Matthew Driscoll
12 Late Secular Poetry 205
Shaun Hughes
13 Laws 223
Gudmund Sandvik and Jón Vidar Sigurdsson
14 Manuscripts and Palaeography 245
Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson
15 Metre and Metrics 265
Russell Poole
16 Orality and Literacy in the Sagas of Icelanders 285
Gísli Sigurdsson
17 Pagan Myth and Religion 302
Peter Orton
18 The Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse and Old IcelandicLiterature 320
Andrew Wawn
19 Prose of Christian Instruction 338
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
20 Rhetoric and Style 354
Dórir Óskarsson
21 Romance (Translated riddarasögur) 372
Jürg Glauser
22 Royal Biography 388
Ármann Jakobsson
23 Runes 403
Patrik Larsson
24 Sagas of Contemporary History (Sturlunga saga): Texts andResearch 427
Úlfar Bragason
25 Sagas of Icelandic Prehistory (fornaldarsögur) 447
Torfi H. Tulinius
26 Short Prose Narrative (dáttr) 462
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe and Joseph Harris
27 Skaldic Poetry 479
Diana Whaley
28 Social Institutions 503
Gunnar Karlsson
29 Women in Old Norse Poetry and Sagas 518
Judy Quinn
Index 536

Über Autor(innen)

Rory McTurk is Professor of Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds. Previously he has taught at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen and at University College, Dublin. He is the author of Studies in Ragnars saga lodbrókar and its Major Scandinavian Analogues (1991) and Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (2005), and has translated Kormáks saga for the Penguin Sagas of Warrior-Poets (2002).