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The Fashions of Snæfellsness: A case study of clothing and textiles in four sagas of Icelanders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) are an important part of European literary history. Both the sagas’ historical background and their literary techniques were studied intensely in the last century, but dress and fashion in Old Norse–Icelandic ...
Sepp, Kait
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Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Page range: 117 ...
Nordal, Guðrún
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Changing style and changing meaning: Icelandic historiography and the medieval redactions of Heiðreks saga [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events.
Hall, Alaric
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Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day.
Bjork   +8 more
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Quantifying Feelings

open access: yesDigital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
The medieval sagas of Icelanders, celebrated for their emotionally restrained narrative style, merge prose with verse in a genre-defining prosimetrum.
Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir
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Remembering Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga Ketilsdóttir: construction of cultural memory and female religious identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Medieval Icelandic literature recounts stories of both pagans and Christians settling in Iceland. Most of these stories focus on a male protagonist. However one of these tales centres around a female settler, namely Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)úðga Ketilsdóttir ...
Vanherpen, Sofie
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Testi screditati, testi accantonati. Per una rilettura delle saghe degli islandesi ‘post-classiche’ o ‘recenziori’

open access: yesAnnali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Occidentale
Medieval Icelandic sagas include the so-called ‘post-classical’ or ‘late’ Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders), a group of fourteenth-century texts that are compelling and innovative, as they challenge narrative conventions, especially from the point
Ceolin, Martina
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The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It is well established ethnographically that history is a particularly important and celebrated aspect of Icelandic identity. Paraphrasing Hastrup, it could be argued that Icelandic culture is a culture of the past.
Grétarsdóttir, Tinna   +2 more
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The Icelandic Sagas as a Subject for Undergraduate Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
While medieval studies has dramatically expanded its scope and the texts taught as part of its subject over the past few decades, the study of Icelandic saga literature is still a fringe discipline, particularly in North American academe.
Sexton, John P.
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Wild Collection and Cultivation of Native Species in Iceland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Based on an MSc thesis submitted to the joint Master program between University of Kassel and University of Goettingen and later published: WHITNEY C.W., GEBAUER J. & ANDERSON M. 2012.
Anderson , Molly   +2 more
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