Egil’s Bones
Egil’s Bones Byock, Jesse L. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN,Vol. 272, January (1995) Abstract An Icelandic saga tells of a Viking who had unusual, menacing features, including…
Sigurðar saga fóts (The Saga of Sigurðr Foot)
This is the first English translation of the short Icelandic romance Sigurðar saga fóts, with an introduction presenting the evidence for its dating and immediate literary context.
Did the Scots visit Iceland? New research reveals island inhabited 70 years before Vikings thought to have arrived
By Owen Jarus It is now thirty years since clerics, who live on the island [Thule] from the first of February to the…
Attitudes Toward Nutrition and Health in the Ancient North
Attitudes Toward Nutrition and Health in the Ancient North By David Robertson Southern Medical Journal, Vol.71:12 (1978) Introduction: Medieval Scandinavia was a culture…
Saint-Making in Early Iceland
Saint-Making in Early Iceland By Bernadine McCreesh Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, Vol.17 (2006-7) Abstract: This article examines briefly the lives of Iceland’s earliest candidates for…
go geyja: the limits of humour in Old Norse- Icelandic paganism
go geyja: the limits of humour in Old Norse- Icelandic paganism North, Richard (University College London) Paper given at the 11th International Saga…
Nítíða saga: A Normalised Icelandic Text and Translation
Nítíða saga: A Normalised Icelandic Text and Translation By Sheryl McDonald Leeds Studies in English, n.s., 40 (2009) Introduction: Nítíða saga is one…
Feuding in Viking-Age Iceland’s Great Village
Feuding in Viking-Age Iceland’s Great Village By Jesse L. Byock Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture, edited by Warren C.…
Codfish and Kings, Seals and Subsistence: Norse Marine Resource Use in the North Atlantic
Codfish and Kings, Seals and Subsistence: Norse Marine Resource Use in the North Atlantic By Sophia Perdikaris and Thomas H. McGovern Human Impacts…
Heroes of the Valley
Heroes of the Valley By Jonathan Stroud Publisher:Hyperion Books for Children, Nov 22, 2010 ISBN:978-1423109662 Summary Halli Sveinsson has grown up in the…
Dressing the Dead: Gender, Identity, and Adornment in Viking-Age Iceland
Dressing the Dead: Gender, Identity, and Adornment in Viking-Age Iceland By Michèle Hayeur-Smith Vinland Revisited, the Norse World at the Turn of the…
A Viking in Shining Armour?: Vikings and chivalry in the fornaldarsögur
A Viking in Shining Armour?: Vikings and chivalry in the fornaldarsögur By Carolyne Larrington Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, Vol. 4 (2008) Introduction: When…
Medieval scholar to take one-year trip to explore Iceland’s sagas
A Cambridge scholar is starting a one-year journey across Iceland, to examine the history and significance of Icelandic sagas. Dr Emily Lethbridge, who…
Native American came to Iceland over a thousand years ago, research finds
New genetic research has uncovered evidence that suggests a Native North American woman came to Iceland in the year 1000, most probably as…
The position of freed slaves in medieval Iceland
The position of freed slaves in medieval Iceland By Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson Saga Book, Vol.22 (1986) Introduction: Freed slaves are mentioned in various…
Journey to the Antipodes. Cosmological and Mythological Themes in Alexanders Saga
Journey to the Antipodes. Cosmological and Mythological Themes in Alexanders Saga By David Ashurst Paper given at the 11th International Saga Conference (2000)…
Law and the (Un)dead: medieval models for understanding the hauntings in Eyrbyggja saga
Eyrbyggja saga alone, then, presents modern readers with at least three possible conceptions of the revenants nature.
A Layered Landscape: How the Family Sagas Mapped Medieval Iceland
In this paper I discuss three ways in which the family sagas inscribed cognitive maps over Iceland: firstly, sagas explain how places received their names through the people who lived and acted there; secondly, saga narratives traversing the named landscape act to imprint it further with human meaning; and finally, Íslendingasögur refer us to physical evidence of saga action in the landscape, asserting it can ‘still be seen today’.
Mírmanns saga: The First Old Norse-Icelandic Hagiographical Romance?
Mírmanns saga: The First Old Norse-Icelandic Hagiographical Romance? By Sverrir Tómasson Romance and Love in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland Essays in Honor…
Mosfell Archaeological Project: A Viking Landscape
The Mosfell Archaeological Project is an interdisciplinary research project employing the tools of history, archaeology, anthropology, forensics, environmental sciences, and saga studies. The…
Enduring Impacts: Social and Environmental Aspects of Viking Age Settlement in Iceland and Greenland
Enduring Impacts: Social and Environmental Aspects of Viking Age Settlement in Iceland and Greenland By Orri Vésteinsson, Thomas H McGovern and Christian Keller…
Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland
Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland Edited by Gavin Lucas Institute of Archaeology (Iceland), 2009 An international group…
Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic
Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic By Sophia Perdikaris and Thomas H. McGovern Beyond the…
Bloody Slaughter: Ritual Decapitation and Display At the Viking Settlement of Hofstaðir, Iceland
This article attempts an interpretation of an unusual assemblage of cattle skulls recovered from recent excavations at the Viking Age monumental hall of Hofstaðir in Iceland.
Saga and East Scandinavia: Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference
Saga and East Scandinavia: Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference Edited by Agneta Ney, Henrik Williams and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist Gävle:…