Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas / / Tatjana N. Jackson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, Tatjana N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Beyond Medieval Europe
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

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.

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 ‹i›oecumene‹/i› in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Sources, Aims, Conventions -- Part 1. Eastern Europe in the Old Norse Weltbild -- Part 2. Four Norwegian Kings in Old Rus' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index