"Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island's early history"--
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"Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island's early history"--
"Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island'searly history"--
Chronology -- Encountering the Sagas -- Traditions in Time -- Icelandic Identities -- Reading Selected Sagas -- The Sagas in English -- Conclusion: Identity and Alterity. "Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context,…
"Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island's early history"--
"Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island's early history"--
Translation by Haraldur Bessason of Jon Johannesson's comprehensive history of Medieval Iceland. Includes chapters on discovery and settlement, government, voyages and explorations, church and religion, economic history and material culture.
Translation by Haraldur Bessason of Jon Johannesson's comprehensive history of Medieval Iceland. Includes chapters on discovery and settlement, government, voyages and explorations, church and religion, economic history and material culture.
"This book provides an analysis of the ideology of power in Norway and Iceland as reflected in sources written during the period 1150-1250. The main focus is explaining the way that Kings' power in Norway, and that of chieftains in Iceland, was idealised in important texts from …
This book provides an analysis of the ideology of power in Norway and Iceland as reflected in sources written during the period 1150-1250. The main focus is explaining the way that Kings' power in Norway, and that of chieftains in Iceland, was idealised in important texts from t…