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Sagas, Saints and Settlements.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Northern World SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (167 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781280915031
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sagas, Saints and SettlementsDDC classification:
  • 839.6/309
LOC classification:
  • PT7181 .S25 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- The World and its Ages: The organisation of an 'encyclopaedic' narrative in MS AM 764 4to -- The Question of Genre in the late Íslendinga sögur: a Case Study of þorskfirðinga saga -- Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, Pilgrim and Martyr -- Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnús of Orkney -- Land Assessment and the Silver Economy of Norse Scotland -- Earldom Strategies in North Scotland -- Scandinavians in Central Scotland&amp -- #8212 -- Bý-place-names and their Context -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- The World and its Ages: The organisation of an 'encyclopaedic' narrative in MS AM 764 4to -- The Question of Genre in the late Íslendinga sögur: a Case Study of þorskfirðinga saga -- Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, Pilgrim and Martyr -- Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnús of Orkney -- Land Assessment and the Silver Economy of Norse Scotland -- Earldom Strategies in North Scotland -- Scandinavians in Central Scotland&amp -- #8212 -- Bý-place-names and their Context -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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