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Chronology | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Iceland | 1 |
The Beginnings | 1 | |
Language | 5 | |
Cultural Heritage | 9 | |
Discovery and Settlement | 17 | |
2 | The Saga | 22 |
What Is a Saga? | 22 | |
Are Family Sagas Medieval Novels? | 24 | |
Are Family Sagas Chronicles of Time Past? | 36 | |
Three Extracts: Egils saga, Vatnsdoela saga and Lexdoela saga | 47 | |
3 | New Knowledge and Native Traditions | 61 |
Latin Learning | 61 | |
Eddaic and Skaldic Verse | 62 | |
Historical Writings | 93 | |
Fornaldarsogur | 99 | |
Riddarasogur and Rimur | 102 | |
4 | The Politics of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature | 106 |
Iceland and Scandinavian Nationalism | 107 | |
Old Norse-Icelandic as 'Ancient Poetry' | 110 | |
Bishop Percy's Translations | 111 | |
Gray's 'Norse Odes' | 116 | |
The Romantic Viking | 120 | |
Our Friends in the North | 124 | |
Old Norse-Icelandic Studies in Academia | 128 | |
The Debate about Saga Origins | 130 | |
Why is Old Norse English Literature? | 134 | |
Old Norse-Icelandic and English Medieval Literature | 136 | |
5 | The Influence of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature | 149 |
Blake | 149 | |
Tolkien and Fantasy Literature | 154 | |
Scott, Kingsley and Haggard | 157 | |
Landor, Arnold and Morris | 166 | |
Stevenson, Hardy and Galsworthy | 176 | |
MacDiarmid, Mackay Brown, and Auden and MacNeice | 184 | |
Heaney and Muldoon | 196 | |
App | Hrafnkel's Saga | 202 |
Glossary | 224 | |
Notes | 227 | |
Bibliography | 229 | |
Index | 232 |
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