The culmination of over a decade's research on verbal culture in the pre- and post-Conversion medieval North at Bergen's Centre for Medieval Studies, this volume traces the movement of words and texts temporally, geographically, and intellectually across different media and genr…
A trip to the furthest edgelands of the Viking world via the drama of the Old Norse sagas - from the Arctic Circle to Constantinople, north America to Kievan Rus.
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long…
Dating the sagas: reviews and revisions
Dating the sagas: reviews and revisions
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
King's sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
This book is an examination of some of the principal issues arising from the study of the kings sagas, the main narrative sources for Norwegian history before c. 1200. Providing an overview of the past two decades of scholarship, it discusses the vexed relationship between verse…
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives
by Ghosh, Shami
fromNorthern world
This title is an examination of some of the principal issues arising from the study of the kings' sagas, the main narrative sources for Norwegian history before c.1200.