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From Rus' to Rímur : Norse History, Culture, and Literature East and West / ed. by Shaun F. D. Hughes, Allyn K. Pearson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Islandica ; 65
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
- Scandinavian literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.) : 7 color photos
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Shaun F. D. Hughes is Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University. He has researched in and written extensively on Old Norse/Icelandic and Early Modern Icelandic literature and culture. Allyn K. Pearson is a doctoral student in the Literary, Theory, and Cultural Studies Program and the English Department at Purdue University.
- Summary:
- From Rus' to Rímur, volume 65 in the Islandica series and simultaneously an issue in the occasional journal New Norse Studies, offers six contributions that range across Europe from East to West and across three categories: "Historical Studies," "Literary Studies," and "New Editions." The volume opens with a historical-onomastic study of the Varangian presence in Medieval Rus' and proceeds to the Isle of Man for a consideration of its population's "ethnogenesis" in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Literary studies and fresh translations follow to return our attention to the remarkable creativity in sagas and poetry that was an especially rich province of Norse and Icelandic culture. Contributors: Matthew Bardowell, Brynja orgeirsdóttir, Francesco Colombo, Caitlin Ellis, Eric A. Haley-Halinski, Shaun F. D. Hughes, Jonathan Y. H. Hui, Philip Lavender, Anna Litvina, James McIntosh, Dirk H. Steinforth, Fjodor Uspenski.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Historical Studies
- The Destinies of Varangians in Eleventh-to Twelfth-Century Rus'
- “From That Union Came the Manx People”
- Literary Studies
- “A Never-Ending Story”
- The Aesthetics of Concealment and Revelation in the Skaldic Poetry of Kári Sölmundarson
- New Editions
- Jóns saga leiksveins
- Depicting Friendship in Early Modern Iceland
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9780935995336
- 0935995331
- 9780935995329
- 0935995323
- OCLC:
- 1485528110
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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