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Author : Viking Society for Northern Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research written by Viking Society for Northern Research and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 3, 5.

Author : Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824047870
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Scandinavia written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With full-page maps and supplementary photos, this encyclopedia covers every aspect of Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art.

Author : Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000486729
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Disability Throughout History written by Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar), which is the first time that disabled people were referenced in Iceland as a legal or administrative category. Data sources analysed in the project represent a broad range of materials that are not often featured in the study of disability, such as bone collections, medieval literature and census data from the early modern era, archaeological remains, historical archives, folktales and legends, personal narratives and museum displays. The ten chapters include contributions from multidisciplinary team of experts working in the fields of Disability Studies, History, Archaeology, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Folklore and Ethnology, Anthropology, Museum Studies, and Archival Sciences, along with a collection of post-doctoral and graduate students. The volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, history, medieval studies, ethnology, folklore, and archaeology.

Author : Geraldine Barnes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916080
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viking America written by Geraldine Barnes and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, Groenlendinga saga (Saga of Greenlanders) and Eiriks saga rauda(Saga of Eric the Red), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns. GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.

Author : Arthur Groos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136510001
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perceval/Parzival written by Arthur Groos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad. Also includes eight musical examples.

Author : Wilhelm August GRAAH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of an expedition to the East coast of Greenland ... in search of the lost colonies ... Translated from the Danish by ... G. G. Macdougall written by Wilhelm August GRAAH and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110625458
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saga of the Jómsvikings written by and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast, launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga’s account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.

Author : Ásdís Egilsdóttir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sagnaheimur written by Ásdís Egilsdóttir and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilhelm August Graah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of an expedition to the east coast of Greenland ... in search of the lost colonies, tr. by G.G. Macdougall written by Wilhelm August Graah and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oddr Snorrason
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717901
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason written by Oddr Snorrason and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oddr Snorrason, a Benedictine monk in northern Iceland in the late twelfth century, composed a landmark Latin biography of the legendary Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason (died 1000 C.E.). This biography was soon translated into Icelandic, and the translation (though not the Latin original) is preserved in two somewhat differing versions and a small fragment of a third. The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason is the first English translation of this text, augmented by an introduction and notes to guide the reader. There is a strong possibility that Oddr's biography was the first full-length saga of the Icelandic Middle Ages. It ushered in a century of saga writing that assured Iceland a unique place in medieval literature and in the history of prose writing. Aside from being a harbinger of the saga tradition, and indeed of the modern novel, The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason has its own literary merits, including an epic description of the great Battle of Svoldr, in which King Olaf succumbed. In significant ways the narrative of this battle anticipates the mature style of the classical sagas in the thirteenth century.