Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology has its origin in his ethnographic work on the honor-based society of Kabyllia a region of Algeria. It is from this work as an ethnographer that he developed his concepts of different types of ...
My goal in this paper is to chart the relationship between the 19th- and 20th-century critical work on the “Karlamagnussaga” and the criticism engaging a dozen analogous Middle English Charlemagne romances. I start from ...
"Combat in Saga Literature. Traces of martial arts in medieval Iceland" describes and analyses the combat scenes in Old Norse saga literature. It develops four "modes of combat", literary patterns that shaped the narration ...
Árni Magnússon's huge job as a systematic collector of Icelandic manuscripts is well known. But how did he come to do this? Who were his precedessors? For he did not just get the idea to do this work all by himself. It has ...
A international research project has been developed in connection with the famous historical site, Reykholt, in Western Iceland.1 The project, called The Reykholt Project, is centred on the most well-known and powerful ...
The Saga of Yngvarr used to be classified as a Legendary Saga (Fornaldarsaga) on account of its vague and distant geographical setting and unrealistic subject matter, despite its being set in the 11th century - with Swedish ...
The Queen mother Gunnhildr is one of the most evil Norwegian female characters in the Middle ages. She appears in many old stories where she is usually the female agent for ill in the sagas; she is wicked, promiscuous and ...
A society is defined not only by the people at its centre, the wealthy and influential and the masses, but also by those people who are on its fringes, neither fully included in that society nor beyond its boundaries. This ...
Der Roman wird als Text über die Fiktionaliät des Ich-Erzählers gelesen. Gleichzeitig wird herausgearbeitet, wie auf diese Weise Spannung geschaffen wird.
Um Arngrím lærða og Íslendingasögurnar
Um 1550 breyttist staða Íslands gagnvart konungsvaldinu. Ástæðan var sú að Danir sögðu skilið við páfann í Róm og konungsvaldið tók yfir það æðsta vald í kirkjumálum og trúmálum sem ...
Images and Metaphors, Mirrors of Social Concern in the Saga af Viktor ok Blavus
I wish to examine how the images and metaphors in the Saga af Viktor ok Blavus reflect the concerns of Icelandic society. Included among the ...
Oral tradition is one of the most important sources of early history-writing all over Europe. However its usage by the first authors of ‘barbarian histories’ and the mechanisms of its incorporation in the texts, in spite ...
Borgarbyggð is a municipality that is situated in a historically very interesting area. This area was the setting for the saga of the settler Skallagrim Kveldulfsson and the colorful life of the poet Egill Skallagrimsson; ...