ENGLISH

Old Icelandic Literature and Society

By Margaret Clunies Ross

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521631122, 9780521631129, 9780511552922, 0521110254, 9780521110259
LCC
PT7113 .O53 2000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1230958 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Pages
352\352
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.

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