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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

Snorre Sturlason som balanskonstnär

Collegium Medievale, 2010
This article discusses the historical context of Snorri Sturluson-´s work, known as "Kings-´ Sagas", its title and structure as well as his purposes and intended audiences.
Birgit Sawyer
doaj  

Kung Sverre och norrön sagaskrivning

Scripta Islandica
In an article published in 1914 Halvdan Koht tried to show that King Sverrir Sigurðs­son, who ruled Norway between 1177 and 1202, had played an important role in the early history of Old Norse saga-writing.
Lars Lönnroth
doaj   +1 more source

Scenes of a sexual nature: theorising representations of sex and the sexual body in the sagas of the Icelanders [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis considers depictions of and discourse around sexual activity in the Íslendingasögur (the sagas of the Icelanders), also drawing on Eddic poetry, the samtíðarsögur (contemporary sagas), fornaldarsögur (legendary sagas) and riddarasögur ...
Keens, LA
core  

The Present and the Past in the Sagas of the Icelanders [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter examines how the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), which were mostly written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, re ected their present in a particularly period of the past, the socalled ‘Saga-Age’ which roughly covers the ...
Antonsson, HT
core  

When dreams come true. The role of dreams in Sagas of the Icelanders [PDF]

, 2010
In den Isländersagas spielen die Träume eine bedeutende Rolle, obwohl nicht in allen Isländersagas Träume auftauchen. Der Glaube daran, dass ein erträumtes Ereignis sich erfüllt, ist in diesen Texten weit verbreitet.
Plamper, Franziska
core  

Continuity and Contact: The Contemporary Sagas and Cultural Memory [PDF]

, 2021
The study is focused on the Old Norse "contemporary sagas" (texts composed with a short time distance from the events of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that are recorded in them) and some of the bishops' sagas as images of the thirteenth- and ...
Korecká, Lucie
core  

"He was a good farmer, he died in Greece." Activities of people of the Viking age and their appreciation in runic inscriptions and sagas [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis is an analysis of the activities of people of the Viking Age based on runic inscriptions and selected sagas of Icelanders and one kings' saga.
Podolská, Markéta
core   +3 more sources

Os varangos nas sagas islandesas [PDF]

, 2012
Resumo O presente artigo trata dos varangos de Bizâncio, um corpo de guerreiros mercenários constituído por escandinavos nos séculos X e XI, e da sua repercussão na literatura islandesa dos séculos XIII e XIV, mais especificamente nas Íslendingasögur ...
Moosburger, Théo de Borba
core   +1 more source

An Iceland hotspot saga

Jökull, 2008
Is Iceland a hotspot, with ridge-centered plume? In Iceland vigorous volcanism has built up a plateau 3.0 km higher than at a normal mid-ocean ridge with 3 to 4 times thicker crust than average oceanic crust. This volcanism can be associated with anomalous volcanism for 56–61 Ma in the form of aseismic ridges that stretch across the North Atlantic ...
openaire   +2 more sources