Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1 (2005)

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia (VMS 1)

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1 (2005)

VIII+279 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2005
ISBN: 978-2-503-51570-0
Languages: English

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Table of Contents

Simonetta Battista, ‘The Compilator and Contemporary Literary Culture in Old Norse Hagiography’;
Oren Falk, ‘Did Rannveig Change Her Mind? Resolve and Violence in Þorsteins þáttr stangarhõggs’;
Ildar Garipzanov, ‘Carolingian Coins in Ninth-Century Scandinavia: A Norwegian Perspective’;
Pernille Hermann, ‘Spatial and Temporal Perspectives in Íslendingabók: Historiography and Social Structures’;
Annette Lassen, ‘Óðinn in Old Norse Texts other than The Elder Edda, Snorra Edda and Ynglinga saga’;
Julie Lund, ‘Thresholds and Passages: the Meanings of Bridges in the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages’;
Lena Norrman, ‘Visual Poetry, Weaving Meaning: Micro Narratives in the Nordic Oral Tradition’;
Carl Phelpstead, ‘Converting to Europe: Christian Themes in Knýtlinga saga’;
Catherina Raudvere, ‘Life as Text: the Power of the Spoken Word as Literary Motif and Ritual Practice in Old Norse Literature’;
Alexandra Sanmark, ‘Dietary Regulations in Early Christian Norway’;
Olof Sundqvist, ‘Sagas, Religion, and Rulership: the Credibility of the Description of Rituals in Hákonar saga góða’;
Matthew Townend ‘Knútr and the Cult of St Óláfr: Poetry and Patronage in Eleventh-Century Norway and England’.

Interest Classification:

Medieval & Modern (Indo-European) Languages & Literatures

Germanic langs & lits (other than English)

North Germanic/Scandinavian languages & literatures

Medieval & Renaissance History (c.400-1500)

Medieval European history (400-1500) : genres & specific topics

Viking studies

Medieval European history (400-1500) : local & regional history

Scandinavian & Baltic lands

Medieval History (400-1500) : subperiods

Late Antique & Early Middle Ages (c.250-600)

Central Middle Ages (c.900 -1250)

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