Norse
The language and literature of the Viking world; Viking sagas and their interpretation.
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Utnordur: Western Nordic Standardisation and Variation
by Kristjan Arnason
The focus of this book is on the West Nordic linguistic area: Norway, the Faroes and Iceland, at different stages in their history. In the Middle Ages these countries were the home of the Old Norse literary language in which the Icelandic sagas were written, and for a while Greenland and the Scottish Isles were included in the domain. This cultural union collapsed around 1400. The articles are based on lectures given at a symposium in Stockholm ...
Paperback. Price US$25.00
The Syntax of Old Norse: With a survey of the inflectional morphology and a complete bibliography
by Jan Terje Faarlund
This book offers the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas is the best documented medieval Germanic language and the author is able to present a comprehensive analysis of its syntax and overviews of its phonology and morphology. He supports his analyses with examples taken from Norwegian and Icelandic manuscript ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$14.98
Rune Cards, 2nd edition
by Tony Linsell and Brian Partridge
30 pen and ink drawing by Brian Partridge; 80 page booklet by Tony Linsell gives information about the origin of runes, their meaning and how to read them. The boxed set of 30 cards contains some of the most beautiful and descriptive black and white line drawings that I have ever seen on this subjectPagan News 30 cards, 80 page booklet, 30 b/w illus., (Anglo-Saxon Books 2003)
Paperback. Out of print. Price US$17.95
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 ...
Paperback. Price US$24.95
Lemmatized Index to the Icelandic Homily Book
by Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen
204p (Iceland UP 2004)
Paperback. Price US$40.00
Norse in Newfoundland: A Critical Examination of Archaeological Research at the Norse site at LAnse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
by Janet Kay
Explorer Helge Ingstad set out in the 1960s to search for the much hypothesized and mythical Norse land of Vinland. Vinland, originally discovered by Leif Erikson c. 1000 CE, is described in two sagas written in the thirteenth century: the Saga of the ...
Paperback. Price US$53.00
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
by Nancy Marie Brown
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$15.00, Our Price US$6.98
Egil's Saga
edited by Svanhildur Oskarsdottir
243p (Penguin 2005)
Paperback. Price US$15.00
Cassell's Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend
by Andy Orchard
A lively dictionary which describes the principal myths and legends of the North, the literary sources, and the pantheon of mythical beings; gods and goddesses, giants and dwarfs, trolls and elves, beasts, heroes and villains. Historical and social topics ...
The Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Saint Barbara
edited by Kirsten Wolf
The legend of Saint Barbara is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts which are presented here on facing pages followed by an English translation. In addition, Wolf presents the Latin source text Passio Sancte Barbare. The texts are preceded by ...
Hardback. Price US$67.50
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