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INTERVIEW: Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Posted on December 13, 2012 | No CommentsAn interview with author Nancy Brown on her latest medieval offering: "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths". -
“Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas
Posted on May 25, 2012 | No CommentsA 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. -
Njáls saga as a novel: four aspects of rewriting
Posted on December 28, 2011 | No CommentsInspired by Njáls saga and Laxdæla saga, the novel Fire in the Ice by American novelist Dorothy James Roberts is one of numerous modern rewritings of classical and medieval literature. -
Remnants of Revenants: The Role of the Dreaded Draugr in Medieval Iceland
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe Vikings brought the ancient Germanic literary tradition from Scandinavia to the rest of Europe. -
“Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas
Posted on August 28, 2011 | No Comments“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... -
Viking Travellers of the Sagas
Posted on August 28, 2011 | No CommentsViking Travellers of the Sagas Shafer, John (University of Durham) North and South, East and West: Movements in the Medieval World: Proceedings of the 2nd Postgraduate Conference of the Institute for Medieval Research,...