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Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas
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Tatjana N. Jackson
Languages:
English, French, German
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware: namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mid-eleventh centuries.
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Jackson Tatjana N. :
Tatjana N. Jackson is the leading Russian Scandinavianist and author of more than ten books and three hundred papers on Russian-Scandinavian relations of the Middle Ages.
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Jonathan Shepard:
The Quellenwert of the Icelandic sagas has long aroused controversy among scholars, especially between historians and those specializing in philology or literature.[...] Fortunately for historians, Tatjana Jackson [...] endorses the more balanced position of T. M. Andersson, Gísli Sigurðsson and others concerning the interplay between the spoken and the written word, whereby writers of sagas drew upon both components. And she approaches the Old Norse Kings’ Sagas in light of Aron Gurevich’s dictum: it is “not a question of whether to use the sagas ..., but of how.”
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 30, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781641890274
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
228
Illustrations:
12
eBook ISBN:
9781641890274
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
