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Old Icelandic literature and society /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Old Icelandic literature and society // edited by Margaret Clunies Ross.
remainder title:	Old Icelandic Literature & Society
other author:	Clunies Ross, Margaret,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Old Norse literature - History and criticism. -
Subject:	Iceland - Civilization. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552922
ISBN:	9780511552922 (ebook)

Old Icelandic literature and society /
Old Icelandic literature and society /Old Icelandic Literature & Societyedited by Margaret Clunies Ross. - 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;42. - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;42..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c.870-1400) and their relations to literary production /Preben Meulengracht Sørensen --

From the period of settlement (870-930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social setting and across a range of genres. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new literary genre which textualised their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form. The book shows that Icelanders often used their textual abilities to gain themselves political and intellectual advantage, not least in the period when the state's freedom came to an end.

ISBN: 9780511552922 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

802105
Old Norse literature
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

802104
Iceland
--Civilization.

LC Class. No.: PT7113 / .O53 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 839/.609

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