Medievalists.net » Grænlendinga Saga http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Early Religious Practice in Norse Greenland http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/17/early-religious-practice-in-norse-greenland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/17/early-religious-practice-in-norse-greenland/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:28:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36572 How many Icelanders were Christian at the time of Greenland’s settlement? Were there any pagans? Did Greenland ever officially convert to Christianity and, if so, when?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/17/early-religious-practice-in-norse-greenland/feed/ 0 “Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/25/ek-skal-her-rada-themes-of-female-honor-in-the-icelandic-sagas/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/25/ek-skal-her-rada-themes-of-female-honor-in-the-icelandic-sagas/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 18:11:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32128 A major goal of this thesis is to not only interpret the representations of women from these sagas, but also to place these representations in the context of the time and the writers. Icelanders wrote these sagas a couple centuries after the Viking age ended and are based nearly entirely on oral tradition.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/25/ek-skal-her-rada-themes-of-female-honor-in-the-icelandic-sagas/feed/ 0 “Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/28/%e2%80%9cek-skal-her-ra%c3%b0a%e2%80%9d-themes-of-female-honor-in-the-icelandic-sagas/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/28/%e2%80%9cek-skal-her-ra%c3%b0a%e2%80%9d-themes-of-female-honor-in-the-icelandic-sagas/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:36:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24627 “Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas Rivenbark, Susan Elizabeth (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) M.A. Thesis, Appalachian State University, May (2011) Abstract There was a separate and unique code of honor and ethics for women living in Iceland during the Viking Age. What was female honor? Were Icelandic women […]

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