From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
* An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
* Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse.
* An introduction helps readers to appreciate the language and culture of the first settlers in Iceland.
* Looks at the reception of Old-Norse-Icelandic literature over the ages, as views of the vikings have changed.
* Shows how a whole range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
* An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
* Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse.
* An introduction helps readers to appreciate the language and culture of the first settlers in Iceland.
* Looks at the reception of Old-Norse-Icelandic literature over the ages, as views of the vikings have changed.
* Shows how a whole range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
€124.95
विषयसूची
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 Times Past?.
Three Extracts: Egils saga, Vatnsdoela saga and Laxdoela
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.
Mac Diarmid, Mackay Brown, and Auden and Mac Neice.
Heaney and Muldoon.
Appendix: Hrafnkell’s Saga.
Glossary.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
लेखक के बारे में
Heather O’Donoghue is Reader in Old Norse at Oxford University. She is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement.
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