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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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