Norwegian Saga
Author : Kent E. Freeland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0595264328
Author : Kent E. Freeland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0595264328
Author : Snorri Sturluson
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Iceland
ISBN :
A collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings.
Author : Theodore Murdock Andersson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Kings and rulers
ISBN : 9780935995206
"The purpose of the present volume is to provide the nonspecialist with a first orientation on the category of Icelandic sagas known as 'kings' sagas.' They are so titled because they typically, though not exclusively, recount the lives of the Norwegian kings from ca. 900 down to the thirteenth century."--p.vii
Author : Paul Thomas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2024-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 3111441164
Author : Lorraine J Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1465351159
Author : Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0191004480
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond; north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. Beyond the Northlands explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures, and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond the horizon of reality. On the crackling brown pages of saga manuscripts, trolls, dragons, and outlandish tribes jostle for position with explorers, traders, and kings. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.
Author : Shami Ghosh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004210474
This book is an examination of some of the principal issues arising from the study of the kings’ sagas, the main narrative sources for Norwegian history before c. 1200. Providing an overview of the past two decades of scholarship, it discusses the vexed relationship between verse and prose and the reliability as historical sources of the verse alone or the combination of verse and prose; the possibility and extent of non-native influence on the composition of these texts; and the function of the past, in particular given that most of the historiography of Norway was produced in Iceland. This book aims to stimulate studies of medieval Scandinavian historiography with its critical perspective on the texts and the scholarship, while also providing a useful work of reference in order to make this area of research accessible to scholars in cognate fields.
Author : Shami Ghosh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9004209891
Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research.
Author : Odd Sverre Lovoll
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2015-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0873519728
"Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada became the gateway for Norwegian emigrants to North America, replacing New York as the main destination from 1850 until the late 1860s. During those years, 94 percent of Norwegian emigrants landed in Canada. After the introduction of free trade, Norwegian sailing ships engaged in the lucrative timber trade between Canada and the British Isles. Ships carried timber one way across the Atlantic and emigrants on the way west. For the vast majority landing in Canadian port cities, Canada became a corridor to their final destinations in the Upper Midwest, primarily Wisconsin and Minnesota. Lovoll explains the establishment and failure of Norwegian colonies in Quebec Province and pays due attention to the tragic fate of the Gaspe settlement. A personal story of the emigrant experience passed down as family lore is retold here, supported by extensive research. The journey south and settlement in the Upper Midwest completes a highly human narrative of the travails, endurance, failures, and successes of people who sought a better life in a new land. Odd S. Lovoll, professor emeritus of history at St. Olaf College and recipient of the Fritt Ords Honnør for his work on Norwegian immigration, is the author of numerous books, including Norwegians on the Prairie and Norwegian Newspapers in America"--
Author :
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1624666353
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members—including, among others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.