TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Gareth
AU  - Bibire,Paul
TI  - Sagas, Saints and Settlements
T2  - The Northern World Series
SN  - 9781280915031
AV  - PT7181 .S25 2004 
U1  - 839.6/309 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Sagas-History and criticism-Congresses
KW  - Scandinavia-Civilization-Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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