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| 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 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Corey Slyford
reviewed Old Norse Short Intro on April 03, 2013
Old Norse Short Intro
Very thorough introduction to the literature of medieval Iceland. The book is set up in a way to guide the reader to the topic in a chronological order, starting with an introduction to Iceland itself, the setting of much of the literature concerned, through to the impact the works have had on later scholars, authors and poets. In a sense, rather than providing a detailed picture of the literature itself, O'Donoghue places it in context, or rather contexts.
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Old Norse Short Intro, From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
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