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Sigurðar saga fóts (The Saga of Sigurðr Foot): A Translation [PDF]
This is the first English translation of the short Icelandic romance Sigurðar saga fóts, with an introduction presenting the evidence for its dating and immediate literary context.
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Konec řádu na kraji světa. K historické sociologii islandských ság
This article discusses the historical background to the medieval Icelandic sagas. It draws on the work of Icelandic historians, especially Gunnar Karlsson, to argue that the key factor was a distinctive political order established in Iceland before the ...
Jóhann Páll Árnason
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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
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The Constitutive Science of Benedictine Literacy: The Archive of Þingeyrar Abbey in Iceland
The monastic archives of Iceland have rarely been made the subject of specific studies. This article is intended to survey the history of one such archive, belonging to the Benedictine Abbey of Þingeyrar in Northern Iceland, which was founded 1133 and ...
Gottskálk Jensson
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Scholars have traditionally viewed the post-classical sagas and ˂i˃þættir˂/i˃ of Icelanders, written between the second half of the 13th century and the early 15th century, as inferior to the classical sagas and ˂i˃þættir˂/i˃ in terms of narrative form ...
Lucie Korecká
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Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World [PDF]
This essay looks at George Mackay Brown's novel of 1992, Vinland, in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century “foundation myth” literature inspired by the Viking discovery of North America as originally recounted in medieval Icelandic sagas. This
Arnold, Martin
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The perception of Old Norse literature in modern Icelandic children’s literature [PDF]
In Icelandic children’s literature of the years 2000−2010, the texts that make use of the subjects of Old Norse literature are not very common, but their importance is undeniable.
Markelova Olga
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A SELECTION OF SKALDIC POEMS [PDF]
Rendering skaldic poetry into another language is a challenge for translators. The main feature of this poetic system is its highly intricate form governed by rigid rules.
Elena A. Gurevich
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Francuzi byli jedną z pierwszych europejskich nacji ‒ obok Brytyjczyków, Niemców i Holendrów ‒ które zaciekawiły się Islandią.
Radosław Jakubczyk
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The Predicament of Nature: Keiko the Whale and The Cultural Politics of Whaling in Iceland [PDF]
This cultural analysis reconsiders the modernist narrative about the politics of whales and whale hunting in order to explore Icelandic responses to the return of the killer whale Keiko (star of the Free Willy movies) to Icelandic waters in 1998 ...
Brydon, Anne
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