Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
This collection of 23 documents is about the Early Icelanders and covers the time span from the first Norse settlement in Iceland around 874 A.D. to Iceland's incorporation into the kingdom of Norway in approximately 1262 A.D. The major focus is on the Commonwealth Period from 930 to 1262 A.D. Much of the cultural data gathered for this period comes from the analysis and interpretation of a number of Icelandic sagas written primarily in the thirteenth century. The most comprehensive study of the social, economic, and political changes taking place in Medieval Iceland over a four hundred year period is The dynamics of medieval Iceland by Durrenberger. This study begins with the first Norse settlement in Iceland around 874 A.D. and ends with the incorporation of Iceland into the kingdom of Norway in 1264 A.D. Fourteen of these documents were originally published in: From sagas to society, edited by Gísli Pálsson
Note:
Culture summary: Early Icelanders - Douglas James Bolender and John Beierle (file evaluation and indexing notes) - 2004 -- - The dynamics of medieval Iceland: political economy and literature - by E. Paul Durrenberger - 1992 -- - Economic representation and narrative structure in Hnsa-þóris saga - E. Paul Durrenberger, Dorothy Durrenberger, ástráður Eysteinsson - 1988 -- - Stratification without a state: the collapse of the Icelandic Commonwealth - E. Paul Durrenberger - 1988 -- - Law and literature in medieval Iceland - E. Paul Durrenberger - 1992 -- - Bibliography - edited by Ross Samson - 1991 -- - The Icelandic family sagas as totemic artefacts - E. Paul Durrenberger - 1991 -- - The name of the witch: sagas, sorcery and social content - Gísli Pálsson - 1991 -- - Regional archaeological research in Iceland: potentials and possibilities - Kevin P. Smith and Jeffrey R. Parsons - 1989 --
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- Anthropological perspectives on the commonwealth period - E. Paul Durrenberger - 1989 -- - References - edited by Gísli Pálsson - 1992 -- - Introduction: Text, life, and saga - =Gísli Pálsson - 1992 -- - From sagas to society: the case of HEIMSKRINGLA - Sverre Bagge - 1992 -- - Emotions and the sagas - William Ian Miller - 1992 -- - Humor as a guide to social change: BANDAMANNA SAGA and heroic values - E. Paul Durrenberger and Jonathan Wilcox - 1992 -- - þógunna's testament: a myth for moral contemplation and social apathy - Knut Odner - 1992 -- - Inheritance, ideology, and literature: HERVARAR SAGA OK HEIðREKS - Torfi H. Tulinius - 1992 -- - GOðAR: democrats of despots? - Ross Samson - 1992 -- - The medieval Icelandic outlaw: lifestyle, saga, and legend - Frederic Amory - 1992 -- - Friendship in the Icelandic Commonwealth - Jón Vidðar Sigurðsson - 1992 -- - Spinning goods and tales: market, subsistence and literary productions - Jón Haukur Ingimundarson - 1992 --
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- Social ideals and the concept of profit in thirteenth-century Iceland - Helgi þorláksson ; [translated by Bernard Schudder] - 1992 -- - The theft of blood, the birth of men: cultural constructions of gender in medieval Iceland - Uli Linke - 1992 -- - Servitude and sexuality in medieval Iceland - Ruth Mazo Karras - 1992
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
