Описание: Originally published in 1935, this book examines the role of dreams in Old Norse literature, how dreams were changed by the coming of Christianity, and how parallels in folklore can further inform an understanding of the importance of dreams to pre-Christian Norsemen.
Автор: Brittany Erin Schorn Название: Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry ISBN: 3110548178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110548174 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 14867.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.
Mariu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Mariu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Описание: Die Buchreihe zur Germanistischen Mediavistik ? Trend in Medieval Philology (TMP)? nimmt zentrale Themen der aktuellen mediavistischen Forschungsdebatte auf und gibt wegweisenden Forschungsdiskursen einen Ort in der Fachliteratur. Die Reihe bietet besonders auch jungeren und internationalen Forschern und Forschergruppen die Moglichkeit, innovative Studien und Diskussionen wirkungsvoll der Fachwelt zu prasentieren. Sie steht auch exzellenten Qualifikationsarbeiten (Dissertationen / Habilitationen) offen, wenn sie das Profil der Reihe befordern, die sich als ein ‚junges‘ Forschungsforum mit hochstem Qualitatsanspruch versteht.
Автор: Mikael Males Название: The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature ISBN: 3110641836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110641837 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 16169.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period. The book argues that this cannot simply be explained as a result of strong local traditions, as in most previous scholarship. Thus, for instance, the author demonstrates that the mix of prose and poetry found in kings’ sagas and sagas of Icelanders is roughly contemporary to the written sagas. Similarly, he argues that treatises on poetics and mythology, including Snorri’s Edda, are new to the period, not only in their textual form, but also in their systematic mode of analysis. The book contends that what is truly new in these texts is the method of the authors, derived from Latin learning, but applied to traditional forms and motifs as encapsulated in the skaldic tradition. In this way, Christian Latin learning allowed for its perceived opposite, vernacular oral literature of pagan extraction, to reach full fruition and to largely replace the very literature which had made this process possible in the first place.
Автор: Alison Finlay, ?ordis Edda Johannesdottir Название: The Saga of the Jomsvikings: A Translation for Students ISBN: 1580443133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580443135 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 4826.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.
This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The study illustrates the inherent flexibility of the hypermetric line and shows how poets were able to manipulate this flexibility in different contexts for different practical and rhetorical purposes. This mode of analysis is therefore able to show what degree of control the poets had over the traditional alliterative line, what effects they were able to produce with various stylistic choices, and how attention to poetic style can aid in literary analysis.
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