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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Burnt Njal written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Webbe Dasent
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486443671
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Njal's Saga written by George Webbe Dasent and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instigated by a spiteful and selfish wife, a grim blood feud between the families of two well-to-do Icelandic landowners spirals out of control, claiming lives and property. Widely regarded as the capstone of Icelandic literary achievement, this gripping thirteenth-century saga not only recounts long and costly battles but documents Viking civic and legal institutions as well. It also presents a cogent exposition of Icelandic religious practices amid stirring tales of war and conquest. The finest English-language version available, this volume includes an informative introduction, editor's notes, and a complete chronology of events.
Author : Magnus Magnusson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Njal's Saga written by Magnus Magnusson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Icelandic family sage, probably from the 13th century, in a modern translation.
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Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853267857
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Njal's Saga written by and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proclaimed as one of the finest Icelandic sagas, this text was written in about 1280 and refers to events a couple of centuries earlier. It is full of the details of everyday life, as well as the social structures of the society in which they take place.
Author : Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1580443060
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga written by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occupies a special place in Icelandic cultural history. The manuscript tradition is exceptionally rich and extensive. The oldest extant manuscripts date to only a couple of decades after the saga’s composition in the late 13th century and the saga was subsequently copied by hand continuously up until the 20th century, even alongside the circulation of printed text editions in latter centuries. The manuscript corpus as a whole has great socio-historical value, showcasing the myriad ways in which generations of Icelanders interpreted the saga and took an active part in its transmission; the manuscripts are also valuable sources for evidence of linguistic change and other phenomena. The essays in this volume present new research and a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the Njáls saga manuscripts. Many of the authors took part in the international research project "The Variance of Njáls saga" which was funded by the Icelandic Research Council from 2011-2013.
Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704844
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book 'Why is Your Axe Bloody?' written by William Ian Miller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud that starts innocently enough--in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast--and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated, Njal and his family burned to death in their farmhouse, the other faction picked off over the entire course of the feud. Law and feud feature centrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the greatest lawyer of his generation. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author's stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In 'Why is Your Axe Bloody?' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely orignal personal reading of this lengthy saga.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781547063932
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Njal's Saga (the Story of Burnt Njal) written by Anonymous and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be one of the finest of the Icelandic sagas, "Njal's Saga" (or "The Story of Burnt Njal") was written sometime in the thirteenth century by an unknown author and is the longest and most developed of the sagas. The source material for the saga was historical but probably drawn largely from oral tradition. The story relates events that took place between 960 and 1020, involving blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth. It features memorable characters like the noble warrior Gunnar of Hlidarendi, the lawyer Njáll Þorgeirsson, and the mildly villainous Mord Valgardsson, whose motivations and passions are familiar to people of every age and locale. The saga is divided into three parts, which describe the friendship between Gunnar and Njal, the tragic consequences of revenge, and finally the retribution of Flosi and Kari. Themes of loyalty, marriage, family honor and vengeance permeate this beautifully written and timeless epic.
Author : Jón Karl Helgason
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853594571
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rewriting of Njáls Saga written by Jón Karl Helgason and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rewriting of Njáls saga concerns itself with the process which enables literary texts to cross cultures and endure history. Through six interrelated case studies, Jón Karl Helgason focuses on the reception of Njáls saga, the most distinguished of the Icelandic sagas, in Britain, the United States, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, between 1861 and 1945. The editions and translations in question claim to represent a medieval narrative to their audience, but Helgason emphasises how these texts simultaneously reflect the rewriters' contemporary ideas about race, culture, politics and poetics. Introducing the principles of comparative Translation Studies to the field of Medieval Literature, Helgason's book identifies the dialogue between literary (re)production and society.
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Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Njál's Saga written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Burnt Njal, the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and consellor.
Author : Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513613
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 written by Ármann Jakobsson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
