Sturla Porarson : : skald, chieftain, and lawman / / edited by Jon Vioar Sigurosson; Sverrir Jakobsson.
Sturla Þórðarson is one of only a handful of thirteenth-century Icelandic historians to be known by name, and he is certainly one of the most significant. A number of works may be traced directly to his literary-cultural circle, notably Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements), Íslendinga saga (The Sag...
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| Superior document: | Northern World, Volume 78 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Northern world ;
Volume 78. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Sverrir Jakobsson
- Sturla Þórðarson, The Politician / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Sverrir Jakobsson
- The Works of Sturla Þórðarson / Guðrún Ása Grímsdóttir
- The Education of Sturla Þórðarson (and the Icelandic Elite) / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
- Power, Protection and Pleasure: The Marital and Extra-Marital Relationships of the Women in Sturla Þórðarson’s Life / Philadelphia Ricketts
- Landnámabók and Its Sturlubók Version / Sveinbjörn Rafnsson
- Sturlubók and Cultural Memory / Ann-Marie Long
- Foundational Myth in Sturlubók: An Analysis of the Tale of Ingólfr and Hjörleifr / Verena Hoefig
- ‘I’m on an island’: The Concept of Outlawry and Sturla’s Book of Settlements / Gísli Sigurðsson
- Narrative Negotiations of Literacy Practices in Íslendinga saga and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar / Lena Rohrbach
- Gautr Jónsson of Mel: Craftsman of Battle and Chief Oral Source of Hákonar saga / Randi Bjørshol Wærdahl
- Sturla: The Poet and the Creator of Prosimetrum / Guðrún Nordal
- The Storied Verse of Sturla Þórðarson / Roberta Frank
- Sturla Þórðarson’s Two Perspectives on Thirteenth-Century History: Royal Chronicler vs. Icelandic Chieftain / Hans Jacob Orning
- Sturla Þórðarson’s Narrative Personalities / Theodore M. Andersson
- Reykholt Revisited / Úlfar Bragason
- Becoming Visible: Viewing Women in Íslendinga saga / Auður Magnúsdóttir
- A Personal Account: The Official and the Individual in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar / Ármann Jakobsson
- The Bias and Alleged Impartiality of Sturla Þórðarson / Helgi Þorláksson
- Codex Reseniani: Sturla Þórðarson as an Encyclopaedic Writer / Sverrir Jakobsson
- Narrative, Evidence and the Reception of Járnsíða / Patricia Pires Boulhosa
- ‘New Worlds Emerging’: History and Identity in Twelfth-Century Eurasia / R.I. Moore
- Postscript: The Subjectivity of Sturla Þórðarson / Gunnar Harðarson
- Bibliography / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Sverrir Jakobsson
- Index / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Sverrir Jakobsson.