#old norse literature and culture
Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology
Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology Rory McTurk School of English, University of Leeds In a paper currently awaiting publication I have argued that the story in Skáldskaparmál of Óðinn’s theft of the poetic mead is an analogue to the story told in Chaucer’s House of Fame, for three main reasons. First, both stories may be said to involve an eagle as a mediator between different kinds of poetry: in…
The Lost Literature of Medieval Iceland
The Lost Literature of Medieval Iceland: Sagas of Icelanders Judith Jesch PhD Thesis, University College London (1984). Click here to read this thesis at Academia.edu
The Varangian legend: testimony from the Old Norse sources
The Varangian legend: testimony from the Old Norse sources Sverrir Jakobsson In the eleventh century there existed, within the great army of the Byzantine empire, a regiment composed mainly o soldiers from Scandinavia and the Nordiccountries. This regiment was known as the Varangian Guard (tagma tōn Varangōn).The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact the existence of this regiment had…
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils sagaSantiago Barreiro
Network & Neighbours, vol. 3, n. 1 (2015)
This study analyses the way in which the thirteenth-century Egils saga Skallagrímssonar presented the migration to Iceland of Egill’s father Grímr and grandfather Úlfr, and the creation of a settlement in the area of Borgarfjǫrðr in Western Iceland during the tenth…
[In Portuguese] BRENNU-NJÁLS SAGA… a translation.
BRENNU-NJÁLS SAGA: PROJETO TRADUTÓRIO E TRADUÇÃO PARA O PORTUGUÊS Théo de Borba MoosburgerPhD Thesis, UFSC, Brazil, 2014.The thesis contains the complete translation into Portuguese of Brennu-Njáls saga (Njal’s saga), an anonymous Icelandic work from the second half of the 13th century and considered to be the most important of the sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) and one of the landmarks…
SCRIPTA ISLANDICA 65, 2014 – Jómsvíkinga Saga
SCRIPTA ISLANDICA 65, 2014 – Jómsvíkinga SagaScripta Islandica: Isländska sällskapets årsbok, ISSN 0582-3234 ; 65
