| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blackwell introductions to literature |
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Blackwell introductions to literature.
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| Contents |
1. Iceland -- The beginnings -- Language -- Cultural heritage -- Discovery and settlement -- 2. The saga -- What is a saga? -- Are family sages medieval novels? -- Are family sagas chronicles of time past? -- Three extracts: Egils saga, vatndœla saga and Laxdœla 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? -- 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 -- MacDiarmid, Mackay Brown, and Auden and MacNeice -- Heaney and Muldoon |
| Summary |
From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers 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. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Old Norse literature -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Old Norse influences.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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English literature -- Old Norse influences.
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Old Norse literature.
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Letterkunde.
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Oudnoords.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003013335 |
| ISBN |
9780470776063 |
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0470776064 |
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9780470776834 |
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0470776838 |
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0631236252 |
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9780631236252 |
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0631236260 |
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9780631236269 |
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1281310751 |
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9781281310750 |
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9786611310752 |
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6611310754 |
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0470707801 |
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9780470707807 |
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