Old Norse-Icelandic Literature A Short Introduction.

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature A Short Introduction.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Donoghue, Heather
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2004.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
English literature > Old Norse influences.
Old Norse literature > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Chronology
  • Preface
  • 1 Iceland
  • The Beginnings
  • Language
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Discovery and Settlement
  • 2 The Saga
  • What Is a Saga?
  • Are Family Sagas Medieval Novels?
  • Are Family Sagas Chronicles of Time Past?
  • Three Extracts: Egils saga, Vatnsdœla 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?
  • Old Norse-Icelandic and English Medieval 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
  • Appendix: Hrafnkell's Saga
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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