Margaret Clunies Ross
Autor de The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
Sobre El Autor
Simonetta Battista gained her PhD from the University of Macerata in 1997 She is currently a part-time editorial assistant at the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose at the Arnamagnaean Institute, University of Copenhagen Margaret Clunies Ross is McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English mostrar más Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney Frands Herschend is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Uppsala John Hines is Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University, Wales John Lindow is Professor of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley John McKinnell is Reader in Medieval Literature at the University of Durham Elena Melnikova is Head of the Department of Eastern Europe in Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences Stephen Mitchell is Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University Vesteinn Olason is currently Director of the Arni Magnusson Institute in Reykjavik and, since 1968, has held positions at the Universities of Copenhagen, Oslo and Reykjavik Elizabeth Ashman Rowe is an independent scholar residing in Boston, Massachusetts Jens Peter Schjodt is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Aarhus Diana Whaley is Reader in Medieval Studies in the Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Stefanie Wurth has been Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Tubingen since 1997 mostrar menos
Obras de Margaret Clunies Ross
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders (Studies in Old Norse Literature, 11) (Icelandic Edition) (2022) 3 copias
Skaldskaparmal: Snorri Sturluson's Ars Poetica and Medieval Theories of Language (The Viking Collection, Studies… (1987) 2 copias
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception, Volume II: From c. 1830 to the present (English and… (2019) 2 copias
The Cult of Othin and the Study of the Pre-Christian Religions of the North (H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures) (2015) 1 copia
Goyulan, the morning star : an Aboriginal clan song series from North Central Arnhem Land (1988) 1 copia
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and of course most books (8 to 10 not read yet) of [a:Bernard Cornwell|12542|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1504578807p2/12542.jpg]'s fantastic The Saxon Stories.
My TBR-pile contains more books (in English and in French) on the Vikings, the Celts (preceding the Vikings), and the Normans. I hope to read them in this lifetime, hahaha.
As we all know, this people has written a lot of sagas, too many to name and many of them aren't even in existence any more. Several books have been published on the subject, the remaining sagas also have been published again and again, in their original or in one or more reworked version(s). My TBR-pile contains 3 of those, which are also (partly) discussed in Ms. Ross's book:
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Before I start reading those, I preferred to have some background info on them or on the sagas in general. That's when a Russian friend of mine - whose studies were (partly) about Norse mythology, the sagas, and so on - recommended me this little, academic work: [b:The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga|10291511|The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga|Margaret Clunies Ross|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1390269942s/10291511.jpg|15193361].
The back of this publication says:
* Ideal for students, teachers, and lecturers (I would add: anyone interested in the subject)
* Concise, yet packed with essential information
* Key suggestions for further reading
Ms. Ross has divided this "Introduction" into nine chapters, each dealing with a different aspect regarding the sagas. One chapter deals with the country itself, the society of that time. Another will look at the specifications of an Old Norse-Icelandic saga and how it differs from non-saga stories. You'll also learn how sagas came into existence, how they were written, which kinds of sagas there were (about kings, about poets, about knights, about regular people, ...), who had such stories commissioned, and so on. Another examined aspect is the structure, the linguistics, the time of writing and publication, when and in which languages these sagas were translated, and more.
Last but not least, you'll learn how the sagas made it onto the European mainland, their (im)popularity in Iceland and abroad, and how eventually they reminded the Icelanders of their cultural heritage, which made them re-embrace the old writings.
While "only" 163 pages (to read, thus excepting the index and alike), it remains a serious work for which you have to pay attention. It's academic, remember? The writing is fortunately reasonably accessible.
In short: A recommended work for anyone interested in Viking Age Iceland, and especially the sagas themselves.
Online database: http://sagadb.org/ where you'll also find links to other websites on the subject.… (más)