Sagas, Saints and Settlements

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13807-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 244 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: The Northern World

This volume includes selected papers from an interdisciplinary symposium in Norse Studies held at the University of St Andrews. The symposium brought together scholars with a shared interest in medieval Scandinavian history and culture, especially the sagas, from a variety of disciplines, and this diversity is reflected in the papers published here.
Topics covered include saga genre, with particular focus on encyclopaedic manuscripts and the late Íslendinga sögur respectively, the relationship between saga literature and hagiography, with papers on Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar and on the textual traditions surrounding St Magnús of Orkney and St Thomas of Canterbury, and various aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland.
The volume shows the variety of approaches which can be taken to the sagas as texts, especially when combined with other historical and literary material.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Gareth

Bibire, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
The world and its ages: the organisation of an encyclopadeic narratives in MS AM 764 4to
The question of Genre in the late Islendinga sogur: a Case Study of Porskfirdinga saga
Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, Pilgrim and Martyr
Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnus of Orkney
LAnd Assessment and the Silver Economy of Norse Scotland
Earldom Strategies in North Scotland
Scandinavians in Central Scotland- by-place-names and their Context
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gareth Williams, Ph.D. (1997) in Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews, is a curator at the British Museum. He has published articles on Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Scottish topics, with particular interests in monetary history, land assessment and military organisation.
Paul Bibire is a Former Lecturer at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, and has published on Old English and Norse.