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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Medieval Iceland"”.
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… of the year 1000 A.D., the General Assembly of Iceland voted to convert to Christianity. The basis for this decision was political rather than religious, as it was to prevent civil dissension. This factor influenced the subsequent impact of Christianity on Icelandic society, and made possible …
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Literary Activity and Ecclesiastical Authority in Medieval Iceland: The Old Norse Reception of St Ambrose of Milan and his Exemplary Role in Bishops’ Sagas
… struggle for *libertas ecclesiae* in the medieval Icelandic Church. I argue that hagiography –in the form of Saints’ sagas– constituted an instrument to promote Gregorian ideals of ecclesiastical independence against secular chieftains from the late twelfth century to the early fourteenth …
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The Classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur
The Íslendingasögur, written in Iceland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, primarily describe the lives of Icelanders during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Many of these lives involve encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who are portrayed according to stereotypes …
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The Trojans of the North - The Trojan matter and the End of the Icelandic Commonwealth
… focuses on the reception of the Trojan matter in medieval Iceland. This was a popular theme in Icelandic literature in the period known as the Sturlungaöld (‘the age of the Sturlungar’), which ended with Iceland becoming subject to Norwegian dominion in 1264, and beyond. The Icelandic authors who …
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'How can his word be trusted?': speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry
… attitudes towards wisdom, authority and truth in medieval Iceland.
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The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory: A Study of AM 589a–f 4to and AM 586 4to
… of the legendary Scandinavian past in the Icelandic manuscripts AM 589a–f 4to and, to a lesser extent, AM 586 4to, both of which were produced by the same two scribes in the late fifteenth century. I begin in §1 by outlining the scholarly context, my methodology, and the sources. In §2, I …
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Þá varð hlátr mikill: On the role of laughter in Old Norse saga literature
… a better understanding of emotional behaviour in medieval Icelandic narratives and contributes a Scandinavian perspective to the research of emotions in the Middle Ages.
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Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur: motivation, provocation and characterisation
This thesis takes a fresh, character-based approach to the Íslendingasögur. It is inspired by a narratological study that unites the functional and structural role of characters with their human, individualistic portrayal. My major objective is to demonstrate the important connection between …