Old Icelandic literature and society / edited by Margaret Clunies Ross.

Other author Clunies Ross, Margaret.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Descriptionxii, 336 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Old Norse literature--History and criticism.
Iceland--Civilization.
Iceland--History. --To 1262.

SeriesCambridge studies in medieval literature ; 42
Cambridge studies in medieval literature 42. ^A223309
Contents Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c.870-1400) and their relations to literary production / Preben Meulengracht Sørensen -- From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland / Judy Quinn -- Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture / Kari Ellen Gade -- Óláfr Þórðarson hvítaskáld and oral poetry in the west of Iceland c.1250 / Gísli Sigurðsson -- Conversation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Medieval Icelandic artes poeticae / Stephen Tranter -- Useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland / Diana Whaley -- Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendinga sögur) and þættir as the literary representation of a new social space / Jürg Glauser -- Contemporary sagas and their social context / Guðrún Nordal -- Matter of the North: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Romance in Iceland / Geraldine Barnes -- Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland / Ian Kirby -- Sagas of saints / Margaret Cormack.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99059860
ISBN0521631122