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2022
The sagas of Icelanders deal with the life of wealthy farmers in Iceland in the period from 930 to 1030 ce, in the so-called Saga Age. They were recorded over a long period of time in the Middle Ages. The term “saga” commonly designates an epic prose narrative from medieval Iceland that includes a vast number of persons and events, but some sagas focus
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The sagas of Icelanders deal with the life of wealthy farmers in Iceland in the period from 930 to 1030 ce, in the so-called Saga Age. They were recorded over a long period of time in the Middle Ages. The term “saga” commonly designates an epic prose narrative from medieval Iceland that includes a vast number of persons and events, but some sagas focus
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Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas and theIcelandic Saga Map
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2016This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an inter-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims to study aspects of Icelandic literature, history, archaeology, environment, and geography in order to better ...
Emily Lethbridge, Steven Hartman
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The Eddas and Sagas of Iceland
2020Abstract The eddas and sagas are literary works written in Iceland in the 13th and 14th centuries but incorporating memories preserved orally from preliterate times of (a) Norse myths, in prose and verse form, (b) heroic lays with common Germanic roots, (c) raiding and trading voyages of the Viking Age (800–1030 CE), and (d) the ...
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Retelling the Icelandic family sagas
postmedieval, 2021This article is a practice-led analysis of a series of connected creative projects that re-told Icelandic family sagas in ways that adapted and transformed these stories and the storytelling modes of their early composition and performance. It argues that the formal qualities of the family sagas that developed through their multi-modal nature as ...
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2023
“Many would consider a country without building materials uninhabitable.” With these words, Minister of Industry Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason opened Iceland’s first and only cement plant in 1958. More than a century before, Portland cement was first used as plaster on the walls of the Reykjavík cathedral.
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“Many would consider a country without building materials uninhabitable.” With these words, Minister of Industry Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason opened Iceland’s first and only cement plant in 1958. More than a century before, Portland cement was first used as plaster on the walls of the Reykjavík cathedral.
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The Enigma of the Icelandic Saga
Diogenes, 1964The people of Iceland enriched the literature of the Middle Ages with a genre of epic prose that is found nowhere else in Europe. It takes the form of narratives depicting people and events belonging to a period of about one century, which begins in 930 and extends up to 1030.
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Journal of Family History, 2015
This article examines the perceptions of rape and other sexual assaults against women in the Old Norse world based on the medieval Icelandic saga literature. A key starting point is the fact that the Old Norse society was an honor culture, in which honor and dishonor were concepts of supreme social importance. The Icelandic saga literature devotes very
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This article examines the perceptions of rape and other sexual assaults against women in the Old Norse world based on the medieval Icelandic saga literature. A key starting point is the fact that the Old Norse society was an honor culture, in which honor and dishonor were concepts of supreme social importance. The Icelandic saga literature devotes very
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