O'Donoghue, Heather. <br/><br/>
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature :  A Short Introduction. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (254 pages) 
 - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
 - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
<br/><br/>Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chronology -- Preface -- 1 Iceland -- The Beginnings -- Language -- Cultural Heritage -- Discovery and Settlement -- 2 The Saga -- What Is a Saga? -- Are Family Sagas Medieval Novels? -- Are Family Sagas Chronicles of Time Past? -- Three Extracts: Egils saga, Vatnsdœla saga and Laxdœla saga -- 3 New Knowledge and Native Traditions -- Latin Learning -- Eddaic and Skaldic Verse -- Historical Writings -- Fornaldarsögur -- Riddarasögur and Rímur -- 4 The Politics of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature -- Iceland and Scandinavian Nationalism -- Old Norse-Icelandic as 'Ancient Poetry' -- Bishop Percy's Translations -- Gray's 'Norse Odes' -- The Romantic Viking -- Our Friends in the North -- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies in Academia -- The Debate about Saga Origins -- Why is Old Norse English Literature? -- Old Norse-Icelandic and English Medieval Literature -- 5 The Influence of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature -- Blake -- Tolkien and Fantasy Literature -- Scott, Kingsley and Haggard -- Landor, Arnold and Morris -- Stevenson, Hardy and Galsworthy -- MacDiarmid, Mackay Brown, and Auden and MacNeice -- Heaney and Muldoon -- Appendix: Hrafnkell's Saga -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780470776834 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature-Old Norse influences.<br/>Old Norse literature-History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PT7154 .O5 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>839/.609