#scandinavian studies
The Beginning Of Scandinavian Christianization Mission And Its Interpretation In Adam De Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski Revista Signum, 2016, vol. 17, n. 1 This paper intent to launch a new view on the problem of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages. It is not a new topic under the historians of this period, but it continues to promote vivid debate…
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…
Brazilian journal SIGNUM, issue 16.3: “Readings on Medieval Scandinavia” [Port. & Eng.]…
Leituras da Escandinávia Medieval [Readings on Medieval Scandinavia] Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski (org.) Signum v. 16, n. 3 (2015) Special issue of the journal of ABREM – Associação Brasileira de Estudos Medievais / Brazilian Association of Medieval Studies. Click the title of the article or click the image to read this issue of Signum. Articles: A ESCANDINÁVIA NA IDADE MÉDIA EM SUAS MÚLTIPLAS…
Annotated Translation of the Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic and Norwegian Rune Poem and the Abecedarium Nordmannicum [in Portuguese] Elton O. S. Medeiros Medievalis 2015, 4 (1) The study of runes always attracted the attention of the academy and a great interest by the general public. Nowadays we can see them represented in different ways of media and serving for many different purposes. In this article…
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…
