Autore	Andersson Theodore Murdock <1934->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ithaca, N.Y., : Cornell University Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina	839.6/309
Soggetto topico	Sagas - History and criticism Old Norse literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8014-6030-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	From hagiography to hero : Odd Snorrason's saga Olaf Tryggvason -- Sanctifying a Viking chieftain : the oldest/legendary saga of Saint Olaf -- Creating personalities : the saga age Icelanders -- Defining political identities : the saga of King Magnús and King Harald -- Political ambiguities : Egils saga Skallagrímssonar -- Turning inward : Ljósvetninga saga -- Gilding an age : Laxdola saga -- Two views of Icelandic history : Eyrbyggja saga and Vatnsdaela saga -- Pondering justice : Haensa-Þóris saga, Bandamanna saga, and Hrafnkels saga -- Demythologizing the tradition : Njáls saga.
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Autore	Andersson Theodore Murdock <1934->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ithaca, N.Y., : Cornell University Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina	839.6/309
Soggetto topico	Sagas - History and criticism Old Norse literature - History and criticism
ISBN	0-8014-6030-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	From hagiography to hero : Odd Snorrason's saga Olaf Tryggvason -- Sanctifying a Viking chieftain : the oldest/legendary saga of Saint Olaf -- Creating personalities : the saga age Icelanders -- Defining political identities : the saga of King Magnús and King Harald -- Political ambiguities : Egils saga Skallagrímssonar -- Turning inward : Ljósvetninga saga -- Gilding an age : Laxdola saga -- Two views of Icelandic history : Eyrbyggja saga and Vatnsdaela saga -- Pondering justice : Haensa-Þóris saga, Bandamanna saga, and Hrafnkels saga -- Demythologizing the tradition : Njáls saga.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910811125703321

Autore	Stefán Einarsson <1897-1972., >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Johns Hopkins University Press
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 409 pages))
Disciplina	839.609
Collana	American-Scandinavian Foundation. Publications
Soggetto topico	Literatur Geschichte Old Norse literature Icelandic literature Litterature islandaise - Histoire et critique Icelandic literature - History and criticism Old Norse literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Soggetto non controllato	Literary theory
ISBN	1-4214-3545-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction -- Eddic Poetry -- Skaldic Poetry -- Sacred Poetry -- Secular Poetry of the Later Middle Ages -- Literature of the Clergy -- The Earliest Historiographers -- The Kings' Sagas -- The Sagas -- The Family Sagas -- Sturlunga Saga -- Fornalder Sogur -- Romances of Chivalry and Lygi Sogur -- The Reformation -- The Icelandic Renaissance -- Secular Poetry, 1550-1750 -- Enlightenment (Neo-Classicism), 1750-1830 -- National Romanticism, 1830-1874 -- Realism to Neo-Romanticism, 1874-1918 -- Tradition and Revolt Between the World Wars, 1918-1940 -- After World War II, 1940-1956 -- American-Icelandic Writers.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910524865703321

Autore	Hedeager Lotte
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (321 p.)
Disciplina	936.3
Soggetto topico	Annales school Cosmology - Scandinavia - History - To 1500 Cosmology --Scandinavia --History --To 1500 Iron Age - Scandinavia Iron Age --Scandinavia Material culture - Scandinavia - History - To 1500 Material culture --Scandinavia --History --To 1500 Mythology, Norse Old Norse literature - History and criticism Old Norse literature --History and criticism Oral tradition - Scandinavia - History - To 1500 Oral tradition --Scandinavia --History --To 1500 Scandinavia - Antiquities Scandinavia - Historiography Scandinavia - History - To 1397 Scandinavia --Antiquities Scandinavia --Historiography Scandinavia --History --To 1397 --Sources Iron age - History - To 1500 - Scandinavia Material culture - History - To 1500 - Scandinavia Oral tradition - History - To 1500 - Scandinavia Mythology, Norse - History and criticism - Scandinavia Cosmology Old Norse literature Anthropology Regions & Countries - Europe Social Sciences History & Archaeology Prehistoric Anthropology Northern Europe & Scandinavia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-203-82971-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	IRON AGE MYTH AND MATERIALITY An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; PART I A mythic narrative; 1 The mythic cycle of Odin; The myth; The constitution of primacy; Personification/Agency of objects; The underlying nature of reality; PART II Words of identity; 2 Written sources on the pre-Christian past; Early Scandinavian literacy; The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda; Other Nordic texts; European sources; 3 Origin myths and political/ethnical affiliations; Migration Period Europe: a historical survey European national historyOrigin myths from the Early Middle Ages; Historical 'meaning' of the Scandinavian origin myth; Formation of a political mentalité; Material manifestations: Germanic styles in a historical perspective; PART III The constitution of 'otherness'; 4 Embodied in animals; Scandinavian animal style AD 400-1200; Animals in the styles; The figurative art; Animals in names; Humans as animals - animals as humans: hugr, hamingja, fylgjur; The snake; The eagle and the raven; The wild boar; The wolf; The bear; Embodied and transformative existences 5 Other ways of 'being in the world'Analytical categories and perceptual realities; Phallus, fertility and death; The power of penetration; Women in men's image; Gender images/identities; Betwixt and between: gold-foil figures on display; PART IV Materiality matters; 6 Commemorative places; Objects as agents; The smith in Old Norse sources; Gold in the Old Norse sources; Places for acquisition and transformation; Central places as 'centre of the universe'; Asgard: home of the gods; A 'central place' par excellence: Gudme on Funen; The coastal site of Lundeborg The cemetery of MøllegårdsmarkenGudme's sacred features; Gudme: the paradigmatic model of Asgard?; Cosmological emulation; 7 The cosmic order of landscapes; Hoards as ritual and economic agents; 'Tournaments of value'; Sacred topography; PART V The making of Norse mythology; 8 Knowledge production reconsidered; Epic poetry and historical reality; The enigma of Widsith; The topography of Widsith and the archaeology of Gudme; Widsith: a political narrative of the Migration Period; 9 Hypothesis I: the Huns in Scandinavia; Historical framework: the impact/blueprint of the Huns Archaeological framework: transferable cosmologiesArchaeological framework: Hunnic material culture; The Huns in Scandinavia: diagnostic features; Evidence of a new cosmology; Summarising the evidence; 10 Hypothesis II: Attila and the recasting of Scandinavian mythology; Ornamentation - innovation - migration: a hypothesis; The migration story and myths of descent among the Scandinavians; Embedded knowledge - Greco-Roman tradition; Attila's cosmological blueprint; 11 Stranger kings: intruders from the outside world; Notes; Primary sources, including translations; Bibliography; Index
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Autore	Ghosh Shami
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (269 p.)
Disciplina	948.1/01072
Collana	The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, economies and cultures
Soggetto topico	Sagas - History and criticism Old Norse literature - History and criticism Kings and rulers in literature Literature and history - Norway
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-28078-7 9786613280787 90-04-21047-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Skaldic Verse and Saga Prose: Transmission and Reliability -- 3. Non-Native Sources and Influence -- 4. The Uses of the Past -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Concordance of Cited Passages from the 1932 and 2011 Editions of Morkinskinna -- Index of Modern Scholars Cited -- General Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457598903321