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The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Mikael Males
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-16 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely cons
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Margaret Clunies Ross
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
A History of Icelandic Literature
Language: en
Pages: 748
Authors: Daisy L. Neijmann
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Margaret Clunies Ross
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: DS Brewer

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This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuo
A History of Icelandic Literature
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Stefán Einarsson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Originally published in 1957. Stefán Einarsson covers almost a thousand years of Icelandic literature in tracing the influence of the sagas and eddic poems. Th