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Old Icelandic Literature and Society (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Book

The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.Read More

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  • Book Description

    This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre which textualised their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.

  • Product Description

    This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.

  • 0521110254
  • 9780521110259
  • 30 April 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • 1
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