Sagas, saints and settlements
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Sagas, saints and settlements
(The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 11)
Brill, 2004
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective.
With contributions by Svanhildur Oskarsdottir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.
Table of Contents
Preface
The world and its ages: the organisation of an encyclopadeic narratives in MS AM 764 4to
The question of Genre in the late Islendinga sogur: a Case Study of Porskfirdinga saga
Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, Pilgrim and Martyr
Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnus of Orkney
LAnd Assessment and the Silver Economy of Norse Scotland
Earldom Strategies in North Scotland
Scandinavians in Central Scotland- by-place-names and their Context
Index
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