Research Catalog

Title

An Icelandic literary florilegium : a festschrift in honor of Úlfar Bragason / edited by Marianne Kalinke and Kirsten Wolf.

Publication

• Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Library, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kalinke, Marianne E.
• Wolf, Kirsten, 1959-
• Úlfar Bragason

Description

vi, 374 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

An Icelandic Literary Florilegium, a special issue of New Norse Studies, is a smorgasbord of noteworthy studies and brings together twelve original articles. The various authors examine topics within the field of Old Norse-Icelandic and deal with a variety of literary genres, including the Sagas of Icelanders, kings' sagas, saints' lives, contemporary sagas, skaldic poetry, and post-Reformation compositions in verse and prose. There is no unifying theme, but all articles are written with Professor Úlfar Bragason in mind. Collectively, they present a heartfelt offering to him on the occasion of his seventieth birthday in gratitude for his friendship and scholarly support through many years. This book will be welcomed not only by specialists and scholars in adjacent fields, but also by avid general readers.

Series Statement

Islandica : a series in Icelandic and Norse studies ; volume lxii

Uniform Title

Islandica ; 62.

Subject

• Old Norse literature > Iceland > History and criticism
• Icelandic literature > Iceland > History and criticism
• Icelandic literature
• Old Norse literature
• Iceland

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Festschriften.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• English, Norwegian, Icelandic, Old Norse, Latin, and German texts, with some parallel English translations from the Icelandic, Old Norse, and Latin

Contents

Introduction / Marianne Kalinke and Kirsten Wolf -- Romance gone wrong in the sagas / T. M. Andersson -- Echoes of Egill -- politics and poetry among the Sturlungar / Margaret Clunies Ross 00 Fathers and sons: carnal and spiritual kinship in viking age encomium / Kate Heslop -- How the story "Das Abenteuer der Neujahrsnacht" (1818) by Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) became an Icelandic saga / Shaun F. D. Hughes -- Saga og forfatterskap / Jon Gunnar Jørgensen -- The dragon-slayer tale in Georgíuss saga, a sacred lygisaga / Marianne Kalinke -- Vinland -- paradise or pagan periphery? / Annette Lassen -- Some versifying objects in the sagas of Icelanders / John Lindow -- Sturla Þórðarson og soga om kong Magnus Lagabøte / Else Mundal -- Kvennaríma: cautionary tales for women in early modern Icelandic verse / Natalie M. Van Deusen -- Njála in Eyjafjörður, 1750-1800 / Andrew Wawn -- Disease and discomfort in medieval Iceland / Kirsten Wolf and Sune Wolf Pulsiano with the assistance of Jón Atli Árnason.

Call Number

JFE 21-8148

ISBN

• 0935995250
• 9780935995251

OCLC

1233266054

Title

An Icelandic literary florilegium : a festschrift in honor of Úlfar Bragason / edited by Marianne Kalinke and Kirsten Wolf.

Publisher

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Library, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Islandica : a series in Icelandic and Norse studies ; volume lxii

Islandica ; 62.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

English, Norwegian, Icelandic, Old Norse, Latin, and German texts, with some parallel English translations from the Icelandic, Old Norse, and Latin

Added Author

Kalinke, Marianne E., editor.

Wolf, Kirsten, 1959- editor.

Úlfar Bragason, honoree.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8148