商品簡介
Scholars mostly from Scandinavia, but also North America and elsewhere in Europe, present 29 essays on various aspects of the literature and culture of the Medieval Nordic people who traveled the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean; raided and settled on shores from Russia to North America; and brought the world their sagas, poetry, and mythology. The topics include Christian poetry, eddic poetry, geography and travel, language, late prose fiction, manuscripts and paleography, the post-medieval reception of Old Norse and Old Icelandic literature, rhetoric and style, royal biography, runes, sagas of Icelandic prehistory, skaldic poetry, social institutions, and women in Old Norse poetry and sagas. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Rory McTurk is Professor of Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds. Previously he has taught at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen and at University College, Dublin. He is the author of Studies in Ragnars saga loebrokar and its Major Scandinavian Analogues (1991) and Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (2005), and has translated Kormaks saga for the Penguin Sagas of Warrior-Poets (2002).
