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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09 - Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
The Laxdaela saga is an Icelandic Viking saga (story) of the men and women of the Salmon River valley involving the clan of Laxardalur. An amalgam of historical fact, myth, epic, romance, anachronism, and literary invention, the Laxdaela Saga is, in essence, a dramatization of the circumstances surrounding a Norse blood-feud between two sides of a great dynasty; in its second and decisive portion, it treats a love triangle that re-ignites the feud and its adjoining intrigues. Guorun Osvifursdottir, who is famous for her beauty is our protagonist. Courted by the two foster-brothers Kjartan Olafsson and Bolli orleiksson. Guorun preferred Kjartan, but she gave herself to Bolli, because of a false rumour that Kjartan was engaged to Ingibjorg, the sister of King Olafur Tryggvason. The two foster-brothers engaged in hostilities which ended with Bolli killing Kjartan, and Bolli being killed by Kjartan's kinsmen. The story is carried forward by the mysterious workings of fate, symbolized by the prophetic dreams of Gudrun. Noted for its detached narrative style and ornately-patterned structure, the Laxdaela Saga remains a highly influential work of Scandinavian literature and is considered an outstanding example of medieval prose romance. It is considered to be one of the most important Icelandic sagas, originally written in Old Icelandic; probably sometime around the year 1245 AD. It is noted for its mention of the first known Norseman in the Varangian Guard: the Icelander Bolli Bollason.
Books about Laxdæla-Saga, sive Historia de rebus gestis Laxdölensium. Ex manuscriptis Legati Magnæani, cum interpretatione Latina [by T. G. Repp], tribus dissertationibus [by Finnur Magnússon, Peter Erasmus Müller and E. C. Werlauff] ... et indicibus [by Thorgeirr Guðmundsson], etc. [Edited by-Wium and Gunnlaugur Oddsson. With a preface by Börge Thorlacius.]
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Mit dieser Festschrift ehren Herausgeber und Autoren einen Fachkollegen, dessen wissenschaftliches Werk hohe internationale Anerkennung gefunden hat. In der Tradition der Leipziger Nordistik stehend, galt Rolf Hellers Aufmerksamkeit insbesondere den isländischen Familiensagas. Dieses Thema greifen auch die 19 Beiträger aus den USA, England, Island, Skandinavien und dem deutschsprachigen Raum auf. Sie bieten damit ein breites Spektrum heutiger Sagaforschung. Ein Verzeichnis der Schriften des Jubilars rundet den Band ab.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-22 - Publisher: BRILL
The world's longest lasting republic between ancient Rome and modern Switzerland, medieval Iceland (c. 870-1262) centered its national literature, the great family sagas, around the problem of can a republic survive and do justice to its inhabitants. The Conflict of Law and Justice in the Icelandic Sagas takes a semiotic approach to six of the major sagas which depict a nation of free men, abetted by formidable women, testing conflicting legal codes and principles - pagan v. Christian, vengeance v. compromise, monarchy v. republicanism, courts v. arbitration. The sagas emerge as a body of great literature embodying profound reflections on political and legal philosophy because they do not offer simple solutions, but demonstrate the tragic choices facing legal thinkers (Njal), warriors (Gunnar), outlaws (Grettir), women (Gudrun of Laxdaela Saga), priests (Snorri of Eyrbyggja Saga), and the Icelandic community in its quest for stability and a good society. Guest forewords by Robert Ginsberg and Roberta Kevelson, set the book in the contexts of philosophy, semiotics, and Icelandic studies to which it contributes.
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Die vorliegende Festschrift dokumentiert eindrucksvoll, welche Faszination isländische und norwegische Sagas sowie faröische Balladen auch heute noch auf die Wissenschaft ausüben. In 15 Originalbeiträgen werden zentrale literarische und historische Aspekte nordischer Sagas und Balladen untersucht. Die Aufsätze sind in deutscher, englischer oder dänischer Sprache.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Die Beiträge zum Mittelalter oder zu späteren Epochen behandeln Fragen der Rezeption des Altertums oder Aspekte seiner Kontinuität - z. B. die Germanenrezeption im 20. Jahrhundert und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Germanistik und Nordistik, der Runologie, Germanischen Altertumskunde und älterer germanischer Sprachen und Literaturen. Dank der unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätze der international namhaften Autoren entsteht ein umfassendes, facettenreiches Bild der neueren Forschung. Zudem decken die Beiträge das Spektrum der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit und Interessen des Göttinger Runologen und Mediävisten Klaus Düwel ab, dem der Band gewidmet ist.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-03 - Publisher: BRILL
In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland’s socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-21 - Publisher: The History Press
Magnus Magnusson relates the world-famous Icelandic sagas to the spectacular living landscapes of today, taking the reader on a literary tour of the mountains, valleys, and fjords where the heroes and heroines of the sagas lived out their eventful lives. He also tells the story of the first Viking settler, Ingolfur Anarson.
![Laxdæla-Saga, sive Historia de rebus gestis Laxdölensium. Ex manuscriptis Legati Magnæani, cum interpretatione Latina [by T. G. Repp], tribus dissertationibus [by Finnur Magnússon, Peter Erasmus Müller and E. C. Werlauff] ... et indicibus [by Thorgeirr Guðmundsson], etc. [Edited by-Wium and Gunnlaugur Oddsson. With a preface by Börge Thorlacius.]](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/dgdlAAAAcAAJ?fife=w150)
