Language & Literature
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Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas [Paperback]
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9780198701293
Published by : Oxford University Press
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. ... .... Learn More -
Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature [Hardback]
Haki Antonsson (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843845072
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
Volume: v. 3
The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation were fundamental in the Middle Ages. Surprisingly, however, this topic has received limited attention in the study of Old Norse literature.This book addresses this lacuna in the scholarship, from tw... .... Learn More -
In Enigmate: The History of a Riddle, 400-1500 [Hardback]
Erin Sebo (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781846826344
Published by : Four Courts Press
In enigmate is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated and transformed over more than a thousand years. Beginning with the influential late-antique riddle text Aenigmata Symphosii, In enigmate charts an arc through the extraord... .... Learn More -
How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems [Hardback]
Daniel Donoghue (Author)
£56.00ISBN: 9780812249941
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuation, and capital letters. The paradox is that scr... .... Learn More -
Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture [Hardback]
Susan Irvine (Editor); Winfried Rudolf (Editor)
£61.99ISBN: 9781487502027
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their e... .... Learn More -
Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland [Hardback]
Else Ostergaard (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9788772889351
Published by : Aarhus University Press
One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds occurred in 1921 -- a year before Howard Carter stumbled upon Tutankhamun's tomb -- when Poul Norlund recovered dozens of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnaes,... .... Learn More -
The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature [Hardback]
Irina Dumitrescu (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108416863
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Volume: 102
Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their teachers in official writing, but composed and translated scenes of instruction that reve... .... Learn More -
Old Norse Mythology: Comparative Perspectives [Paperback]
Pernille Hermann (Editor); Stephen A. Mitchell (Editor); Jens Peter Schjodt (Editor)
£21.95ISBN: 9780674975699
Published by : Harvard University Press
Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages... .... Learn More -
Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media [Hardback]
Jordan Zweck (Author)
£51.99ISBN: 9781487501006
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination o... .... Learn More -
Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature [Hardback]
Tristan Major (Author)
£47.99ISBN: 9781487500542
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel n... .... Learn More
