Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c. 870–1400) and their relations to literary production
- 2 From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland
- 3 Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture
- 4 Óláfr Þórðarson hvítaskád and oral poetry in the west of Iceland c 1250: the evidence of references to poetry in The Third Grammatical Treatise
- 5 The conservation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings
- 6 Medieval Icelandic artes poeticae
- 7 A useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland
- 8 Sagas of Icelanders (Ílendinga sögur) and þœttir as the literary representation of a new social space
- 9 The contemporary sagas and their social context
- 10 The Matter of the North: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland
- 11 Romance in Iceland
- 12 The Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland
- 13 Sagas of saints
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
List of contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c. 870–1400) and their relations to literary production
- 2 From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland
- 3 Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture
- 4 Óláfr Þórðarson hvítaskád and oral poetry in the west of Iceland c 1250: the evidence of references to poetry in The Third Grammatical Treatise
- 5 The conservation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings
- 6 Medieval Icelandic artes poeticae
- 7 A useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland
- 8 Sagas of Icelanders (Ílendinga sögur) and þœttir as the literary representation of a new social space
- 9 The contemporary sagas and their social context
- 10 The Matter of the North: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland
- 11 Romance in Iceland
- 12 The Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland
- 13 Sagas of saints
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
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- Old Icelandic Literature and Society , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000