Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-64189-026-7
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Beyond Medieval Europe

Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Tatjana N

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Sources, Aims, Conventions
Part 1: Eastern Europe in the Old Norse Weltbild
Chapter 1: Austrhálfa on the “mental map” of medieval Scandinavians
Chapter 2: Austrvegr and Other aust-place-names
Chapter 3: Austmarr, “the Eastern Sea”, the Baltic Sea
Chapter 4: Traversing Eastern Europe
Chapter 5: East European rivers
Chapter 6: Garðar/Garðaríki as a designation of Old Rus’
Chapter 7: Hólmgarðr (Novgorod), and Kænugarðr (Kiev)
Chapter 8: Aldeigja/Aldeigjuborg, “Old Ladoga”
Chapter 9: “Hofuð garðar” in Hauksbók, and Some Other Old Russian Towns
Chapter 10: Bjarmaland
Part 2: Four Norwegian kings in Old Rus’
Chapter 1: Óláfr Tryggvason
Chapter 2: Óláfr Haraldsson
Chapter 3: Magnús Óláfsson
Chapter 4: Haraldr Sigurðarson
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jackson, Tatjana N
Tatjana N. Jackson is the leading Russian Scandinavianist and author of more than ten books and three hundred papers on Russian-Scandinavian relations of the Middle Ages.