The Saga of the Jómsvikings

A Translation with Full Introduction
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-11-062545-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 197 Seiten

Reihe: The Northern Medieval World

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast, launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.

Alison Finlay, University of London, Birckbeck, UK, and Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Zielgruppe

Mediävisten und Skandinavisten / Scholars of Medieval and Old Norse Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Finlay, Alison

Jóhannesdóttir, Þórdís Edda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Finlay, University of London, GB; Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Island.

Alison Finlay, University of London, UK, and Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.