Old Icelandic Literature and Society

ISBN: 9780521110259 出版年：2000 页码：354 Margaret Clunies Ross Cambridge University Press

Introduction Margaret Clunies Ross 1. Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (ca. 870-1400) and their relation to literary production Preben Meulengracht Sorensen 2. From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland Judy Quinn 3. Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture Kari Ellen Gade 4. Olafr Po arson hvitaskald and oral poetry in the west of Iceland ca. 1250 Gisli Sigur sson 5. The conservation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings Margaret Clunies Ross 6. Medieval Iceland artes poeticae Stephen Tranter 7. A useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland Diana Whaley 8. Sagas of Icelanders as the literary representation of a new social space Jurg Glauser 9. The contemporary sagas and their social context Gu run Nordal 10. The matter of the north: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland Torfi H. Tulinius 11. Romance in Iceland Geraldine Barnes 12. The Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland Ian Kirby 13. Sagas of saints Margaret Cormack.