Iceland And The Immrama An Enquiry Into Irish Influence On Old Norse Icelandic Voyage Literature

Author : Séamus Mac Mathúna
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3831647828
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iceland and the Immrama: An Enquiry into Irish Influence on Old Norse-Icelandic Voyage Literature written by Séamus Mac Mathúna and published by utzverlag GmbH. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the extent of Gaelic influence on medieval Icelandic literature and culture has fascinated scholars for many years, especially the possible relationship between Irish voyage literature and Icelandic narratives concerning journeys to the Otherworld. This book provides a fresh examination and reappraisal of the topic. It compares the Irish [i]immrama[/i] ‘voyages’, including the greatly influential Hiberno-Latin text [i]Navigatio Sancti Brendani[/i] ‘The Voyage of Saint Brendan’, and [i]echtrai[/i] ‘otherworld adventures’ with the Icelandic [i]fornaldarsögur[/i] and related material, such as the voyages of Torkillus in Saxo’s [i]Gesta Danorum[/i]. It also assesses stories about Hvítramannaland, touches on similarities in folk narratives and examines the influence of Classical and Christian literature on the tales. In conclusion, the book makes proposals to account for the parallels and differences between the two traditions and is accompanied by an extensive bibliography and several indices.

Author : Andreas Schmidt
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3831649421
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwanted written by Andreas Schmidt and published by utzverlag GmbH. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 9 essays collected in this volume are the result of a workshop for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies held at the Institute for Nordic Philology (LMU) in Munich in December 2018. The contributors focus on ›unwanted‹, illicit, neglected, and marginalised elements in saga literature and research on it. The chapters cover a wide range of intra-textual phenomena, narrative strategies, and understudied aspects of individual texts and subgenres. The analyses demonstrate the importance of deviance and transgression as literary characteristics of saga narration, as well as the discursive parameters that have been dominant in Saga Studies. The aim of this collection is to highlight the productiveness of developing modified methodological approaches to the sagas and their study, with a starting point in narratological considerations.

Author : Gísli Sigurðsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaelic Influence in Iceland written by Gísli Sigurðsson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristján Ahronson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442665071
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Ocean written by Kristján Ahronson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne-Christine Larsen
Publisher : Viking Ship Museum/National Museum of Denmark
ISBN 13 : 9788785180421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vikings in Ireland written by Anne-Christine Larsen and published by Viking Ship Museum/National Museum of Denmark. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of 13 papers by scholars from Ireland, England and Denmark, consider the extent and nature of Viking influence in Ireland. Created in close association with exhibitions held at the National Musem of Ireland in 1998-99 and at the National Ship Museum in Roskilde in 2001, the papers discuss aspects of religion, art, literature and placenames, towns and society, drawing together thoughts on the exchange of culture and ideas in Viking Age Ireland and the extent to which existing identities were maintained, lost or assimilated.

Author : Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134944683
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe written by Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments of ancient belief mingle with folklore and Christian dogma until the original tenets are lost in the myths and psychologies of the intervening years. Hilda Ellis Davidson illustrates how pagan beliefs have been represented and misinterpreted by the Christian tradition, and throws light on the nature of pre-Christian beliefs and how they have been preserved. The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe stresses both the possibilities and the difficulties of investigating the lost religious beliefs of Northern Europe.

Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Hamlyn
ISBN 13 : 0600627888
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shamanism Bible written by John Matthews and published by Hamlyn. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This evocative guide to Shamanism takes you on a journey from its origins in Europe, North America, Siberia and the Arctic Circle through to contemporary rituals to try today. Illustrated with cultural images, totems and people, shaman John Matthews reveals the rich animistic traditions of this ancient spirituality and reveals how it can empower your life. Discover: The significance of power animals Shapeshifting - moving into different states of being Healing with spirit guides Vision questing - finding guidance in meditation and dream experiences Working with totems Shamanic drumming and trance

Author : Paul C. Bauschatz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Well and the Tree written by Paul C. Bauschatz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906987
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book The Vinland Sagas written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-09-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.

Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025792
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe written by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: