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Woven into the Earth: Textile finds in Norse Greenland
by Else Ostergaard
In 1921 Poul Norlund discovered dozens of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnaes, Greenland. Preserved intact by the permafrost, these medieval clothes displayed remarkable similarities to those worn elsewhere in Europe and which, until then, had been known only from illustrations, This volume reports on the reults of eighty years of research and scientific investigation into this remarkable discovery. Else Ostergard ...
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Old Norse Poetic Translations of Thomas Percy: New Edition & Commentary (MMAGES 4)
edited by M. Clunies Ross
Thomas Percy was the first serious translator of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry into English. He published his Five Pieces of Runic Poetry in London in 1763 and in 1770 published his translation of Mallet's very influential work on early Scandinavian literature and culture as Northern Antiquities (with extensive annotations and additions by Percy himself). In publishing Five Pieces, Percy was influenced by the success of Macpherson's first volume of ...
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Myths, Legends and Heroes: Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature
edited by Daniel Anlezark
In Myths, Legends, and Heroes, editor Daniel Anzelark has brought together scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English literature to explore the translation and transmission of Norse myth, the use of literature in society and authorial self-reflection, the place of myth in the expression of family relationships, and recurrent motifs in Northern literature. The essays in Myths, Legends, and Heroes include an examination of the theme of sibling ...
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The Norns in Old Norse Mythology
by Karen Bek-Pedersen
Nornir or norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas about fate in Old Norse tradition. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of the role played by norns and other beings like them in the relevant sources. Alive to the inherently diffuse nature of the mythology, she is able to put together a complex picture, exploring the largely non-physical nature of the norns, their relationship with ideas of time ...
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Old Norse Women's Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds
translated by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and influential areas of medieval European literature. What is less well known, however, is the quantity of the material which can be attributed to women skalds. This book, intended for a broad audience, presents a bilingual edition (Old Norse and English) of this material, from the ninth to the thirteenth century and beyond, with commentary and notes. The poems here ...
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Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
by Margaret Clunies Ross
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are ...
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Alexanders saga
edited by Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen
The oldest manuscript of Alexanders saga, "AM 519a 4", from circa 1280 is considered to be one of the most important extant pieces of Icelandic writing from the medieval period. Alexanders saga is the Norse translation of Walter of Chatillon's epic poem about Alexander the Great, "Alexandreis". The volume contains an introduction, the text in 'facsimile', quantitative analysis of the manuscript's palaeography, orthography and phonetic system as ...
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The Syntax of Old Norse: With a survey of the inflectional morphology and a complete bibliography
by Jan Terje Faarlund
This is the first account of Old Norse for a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. It presents a full analysis of Old Norse syntax and succinct descriptions of its phonology and morphology. Old Norse was the language of the Vikings and the Old Icelandic sagas and is the best documented medieval Germanic language. Professor Faarlund supports his analysis with numerous prose examples taken from the most reliable ...
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Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative
by Heather O'Donoghue
'A study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects'. 255p (Oxford UP 2005)
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A Piece of Horse Liver: Myth, Ritual and Folklore in Old Icelandic Sources
by Jón Hnefill Adalsteinsson
A collection of eight lectures, now translated into English, which clearly reappraise Old Norse religion and Old Icelandic folk beliefs. Topics include a reinterpretation of the gods and giants of Old Norse, including their genealogy, their conflicts and relationships with all nature. Adelsteinsson also considers efforts by saga writers to unite elements of Christianity and earlier beliefs. He examines sagas to find evidence for animal and human ...
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