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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- TABLE OF CONTENTS v
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vi
- PREFACE 1
- PARADISE ISLANDS IN THE EAST AND WEST – TRADITION AND MEANING IN SOME CARTOGRAPHICAL PLACES ON THE MEDIEVAL RIM OF THE WORLD 3
- THE POWERS AND PURPOSES OF AN INSULAR SETTING – ON SOME MOTIFS IN OLD-NORSE LITERATURE 23
- MONASTIC “ISLANDS” IN MEDIEVAL DENMARK: INSULAR ISOLATION IN IDEAL AND PRACTICE 36
- RELIGIOUS ATHLETES – ON THE PERCEPTION OF THE BODY IN MEDIEVAL ASCETICISM 45
- HOLY ISLANDS AND THE OTHERWORLD: PLACES BEYOND WATER 57
- HVÍTRAMANNALAND AND OTHER FICTIONAL ISLANDS IN THE SEA 81
- THE UNKNOWN ISLAND 88
- WILL THE SON OF NINE SISTERS RULE THE SEA-KIDNEY? 97
- THE QUALITY OF ISLANDS IN MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN LITERATURE 111
- SEASONAL ISOLATION IN THE COMMUNICATION IN LIVONIA 120
- UTSTEIN MONASTERY: AN ISLAND ON AN ISLAND – OR NOT? 128
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 139
- INDEX 140
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- TABLE OF CONTENTS v
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vi
- PREFACE 1
- PARADISE ISLANDS IN THE EAST AND WEST – TRADITION AND MEANING IN SOME CARTOGRAPHICAL PLACES ON THE MEDIEVAL RIM OF THE WORLD 3
- THE POWERS AND PURPOSES OF AN INSULAR SETTING – ON SOME MOTIFS IN OLD-NORSE LITERATURE 23
- MONASTIC “ISLANDS” IN MEDIEVAL DENMARK: INSULAR ISOLATION IN IDEAL AND PRACTICE 36
- RELIGIOUS ATHLETES – ON THE PERCEPTION OF THE BODY IN MEDIEVAL ASCETICISM 45
- HOLY ISLANDS AND THE OTHERWORLD: PLACES BEYOND WATER 57
- HVÍTRAMANNALAND AND OTHER FICTIONAL ISLANDS IN THE SEA 81
- THE UNKNOWN ISLAND 88
- WILL THE SON OF NINE SISTERS RULE THE SEA-KIDNEY? 97
- THE QUALITY OF ISLANDS IN MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN LITERATURE 111
- SEASONAL ISOLATION IN THE COMMUNICATION IN LIVONIA 120
- UTSTEIN MONASTERY: AN ISLAND ON AN ISLAND – OR NOT? 128
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 139
- INDEX 140