Old Norse-Icelandic Literature : A Short Introduction.

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.

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