Sagas, saints and settlements / edited by Gareth Williams and Paul Bibire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Gareth.

Bibire, Paul.

Series:

Northern world ; v. 11.

The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sagas--History and criticism--Congresses.

Sagas.

Scandinavia--Civilization--Congresses.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

x, 153 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume includes selected papers from an interdisciplinary symposium in Norse Studies held at the University of St Andrews. The symposium brought together scholars with a shared interest in medieval Scandinavian history and culture, especially the sagas, from a variety of disciplines, and this diversity is reflected in the papers published here. Topics covered include saga genre, with particular focus on encyclopaedic manuscripts and the late Íslendinga sögur respectively, the relationship between saga literature and hagiography, with papers on Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar and on the textual traditions surrounding St Magnús of Orkney and St Thomas of Canterbury, and various aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland. The volume shows the variety of approaches which can be taken to the sagas as texts, especially when combined with other historical and literary material.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91503-X

9786610915033

90-474-0518-8

1-4294-0722-0

OCLC:

191952651

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047405184 DOI