Icelandic Manuscripts
Author | : Halldór Hermannsson |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Halldór Hermannsson |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gisli Sigur©ʻsson |
Publisher | : University of Iceland Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : 9789979819882 |
A comprehensive and profusely illustrated accompaniment to the exhibition The Manuscripts of Iceland which was organised by the Arni Magnusson Institute and opened in the Culture House in Reykjavik on October 5, 2002. In this collection of articles scholars present the story of Icelandic manuscripts, their medieval origins, the literature they contain and its influence up to the present day. The meeting of written Christian and classical culture with the rich oral traditions in Iceland brought forth a remarkable literary flowering, an eloquent source of information about pagan Scandinavian culture and thought. In time this literature came to inspire the sense of national character in the Nordic countries and exerted notable influence in the German- and English- speaking worlds. This book is a tribute to the central role that medieval Icelandic literature played in forging national identities in Northern Europe.
Author | : Stefan Drechsler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2021-06-28 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Icelandic |
ISBN | : 9782503589022 |
This book examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Scandinavian artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1340?1400), the Augustinian monastery of Helgafell became the most important centre of illuminated manuscript production in western Iceland. By conducting interdisciplinary research that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript studies, codicology, and Scandinavian history, this book explores both the illuminated manuscripts produced at Helgafell and the cultural and historical setting of the manuscript production.00Equally, the book explores the broader European contexts of manuscript production at Helgafell, comparing the similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence of Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, northern France, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in western Norway. The book proposes that most of these workshops are related to ecclesiastical networks, as well as secular trade in the North Sea, which became an important economic factor to western Icelandic society in the fourteenth century. The book thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. It offers a detailed account of this cultural site in relation to its scribal and artistic connections with other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.
Author | : Þjóðólfr ór Hvini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Old Norse poetry |
ISBN | : |
One of the earliest preserved Skaldic poems, which were based on highly complex rules of alliteration and metre, this 10th-century work praises the gift of a painted shield depicting mythological scenes. This is a bilingual edition of the poem.
Author | : Halldór Hermannsson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jónas Kristjánsson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Icelandic literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel C. Najork |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781501518539 |
The Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu saga survives in nineteen manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. The present study, then, restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the
Author | : Daniel C. Najork |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2021-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501514121 |
Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Author | : Margaret Clunies Ross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139492640 |
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.