Old Icelandic Literature and Society (Hardcover)

This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Margaret Clunies Ross
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-63112-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	0-521-63112-2
Barcode:	9780521631129

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