ENGLISHOLDICELANDIC

Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Verse on the Virgin Mary: Drápa af Maríugrát. - Vitnisvísur af Maríu. - Maríuvísur I-III

By transl.) , Kellinde Wrightson (ed.

Book information

Publisher
Viking Society for Northern Research
Year
2001
ISBN
9780903521468, 0903521466
Language
englisholdicelandic
Format
PDF
Filesize
769 kB (787355 bytes)
Series
Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series, 14
Pages
XXVI+146\174
Topic
Literature
Time added
2020-02-25 22:49:36

Description

The five skaldic poems in this volume are among the finest examples of medieval literature composed in the vernacular in honour of the Virgin Mary. They are part of an extensive corpus of Old Icelandic Marian texts which is significant not merely for its size, but, more importantly, for its contribution to our understanding of the cult of the Virgin in Western Europe. Dated to the late fourteenth century, the lamentation poem "Drápa af Maríugrát" and the miracle poems "Vitnisvísur af Maríu" and "Maríuvísur I–III" are among the earliest extant evidence of Old Icelandic Marian poetry. Introduction ix I. Marian Literature in Medieval Iceland ix II. Preservation and Textual History xi "Drápa af Maríugrát" 1 "Vitnisvísur af Maríu" 27 "Maríuvísur I" 40 "Maríuvísur II" 55 "Maríuvísur III" 67 Glossary and Index 83 List of Kennings 135 Bibliography and Abbreviations 143

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