Author: Jesse L. Byock
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: saga, icelandic, feud
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1983-01-11
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520045645
ISBN-13: 9780520045644
Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society--the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict--is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.
Author: Jesse L. Byock
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: saga, icelandic, feud
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 1993-03-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0520082591
ISBN-13: 9780520082595
Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society--the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict--is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.
Author: Stefan Einarsson
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: glossary, text, grammar, icelandic
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2000-12-31
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0801863570
ISBN-13: 9780801863578
This classic book on the Icelandic language was written to aid the military, the businessman, the traveler, or any foreign resident in Iceland. Originally published in 1945, the grammar gives reliable information on pronunciation, inflexions, and syntax of the language. The texts are partly grammatical exercises for the beginner, partly colloquial dialogues, or descriptions of customs and manners in Iceland—town and country. The geography and nature of the country is also discussed and elucidated with maps and drawings. *Hardcover edition published 1945
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, stories, icelandic, saga, hrafnkel
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1971-04-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140442383
ISBN-13: 9780140442380
Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland among them Hrafknel’s Saga, in which a poor man’s son is murdered by his powerful neighbour, and Thorstein the Staff-Struck, which describes an ageing warrior’s struggle to settle into a peaceful rural community. Others focus on the adventures of Icela
Author:
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Keywords: icelandic, studies, manitoba, university, iceland, gragas, laws
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2007-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0887556957
ISBN-13: 9780887556951
The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
Authors:Hermann Palsson, Paul Edwards,
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Keywords: series, icelandic, landnamabok, settlements, book
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 2007-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0887556981
ISBN-13: 9780887556982
Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.
Author: Johanna Barodal
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: constructional, approaches, language, icelandic, structure, evidence, case, argument, productivity
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2008-12-10
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 9027218307
ISBN-13: 9789027218308
