[PDF] Snorri And His Death eBook

Author : Kevin J. Wanner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802098010

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Wanner brings us a new account of the interests that motivated the production of the Edda, and resolves the mystery of its genesis by demonstrating the intersection of Snorri's political and cultural concerns and practices.

Author : Snorri Sturluson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0141915072

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This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which Europe had been dominated by the threat of Scandinavian forces. Despite England's triumph, it also played a crucial part in fatally weakening the English army immediately prior to the Norman Conquest, changing the course of history. Taken from the Heimskringla - Snorri Sturluson's complete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177 - this is a brilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage death of the last great Norse warrior-king.

Author : Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134944683

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Fragments of ancient belief mingle with folklore and Christian dogma until the original tenets are lost in the myths and psychologies of the intervening years. Hilda Ellis Davidson illustrates how pagan beliefs have been represented and misinterpreted by the Christian tradition, and throws light on the nature of pre-Christian beliefs and how they have been preserved. The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe stresses both the possibilities and the difficulties of investigating the lost religious beliefs of Northern Europe.

Author : W. S. C. Russell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Travel
ISBN :

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This fascinating book is a travelog written by W. S. C. Russell. He managed to successfully explore nearly all parts of Iceland on horseback. Amongst the places he visited were the following: Faroe, Reykjavik, Gullfoss, Thingvellir, and Hekla.

Author : Oren Falk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0198866046

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Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk. Analysing violence in instrumental terms, as an attempt to coerce others, focuses on power. Analysing it in symbolic terms, as an attempt to communicate meanings, focuses on signification. Finally, analysing it in cognitive terms, as an attempt to exercise agency despite imperfect control over circumstances, focuses on risk. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland explores a place and time notorious for its rampant violence. Iceland's famous sagas hold treasure troves of circumstantial data, ideally suited for past-tense ethnography, yet demand that the reader come up with subtle and innovative methodologies for recovering histories from their stories. The sagas throw into sharp relief the kinds of analytic insights we obtain through cultural interpretation, offering lessons that apply to other epochs too.

Author : Magnus Magnusson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0750981830

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Magnus Magnusson relates the world-famous Icelandic sagas to the spectacular living landscapes of today, taking the reader on a literary tour of the mountains, valleys, and fjords where the heroes and heroines of the sagas lived out their eventful lives. He also tells the story of the first Viking settler, Ingolfur Anarson.