Icelanders and the Kings of Norway : : Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts / / Patricia Pires Boulhosa.

• Superior document: The Northern World ; 17
• VerfasserIn: Boulhosa, Patricia Pires,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Northern World ; 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The book uses sagas and legal texts to re-examine the relations between mediaeval Icelanders and the Norwegian kings. It demonstrates that the Icelanders - partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power - were ready to negotiate with him for their own benefit, and presents a methodological...

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Conventions
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Mediaeval Icelandic Sagas: Methodological Considerations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Attribution of the Authorship of Heimskringla to Snorri Sturluson
• 3. Textual Criticism and Manuscript Culture
• 4. Sagas as Historical Sources
• Chapter 2 The Law of Óláfr inn helgi
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Grágás in Historical and Literary Studies
• 3. The Ólafslög within the Grágás (Konungsbók)
• 4. The Norwegian King's Power over Icelanders
• 5. Icelanders and Norwegians
• 6. Hauldr - hôldr
• 7. Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Documents of the Icelandic Submission
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The sagas and the Icelandic submission
• 3. The Icelandic annals and the Icelandic submission
• 4. The evidence of sagas and annals: conclusion
• 5. Gizurarsáttmáli and Gamli sáttmáli: Terminology
• 6. Documents from 1400 to 1500
• 6.1. Invocatory clause and oath
• 6.2. Introductory clause
• 6.3. Skattr and þingfararkaup
• 6.4. Summons to go abroad
• 6.5. Lôgmenn and sýslumenn
• 6.6. Sea-going ships
• 6.6.1 Icelandic trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
• 6.7. Other clauses
• 6.8. Documents from 1400 to 1500: conclusion
• 7. Documents from 1500 to 1600
• 8. Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Relations between Icelanders and the early rulers of Norway as depicted in Möðruvallabók
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Möðruvallabók manuscript
• 3. Haraldr inn hárfagri and the settlement of Iceland in Egils saga
• 4. Haraldr inn hárfagri and the settlement of Iceland in the other texts of the Möðruvallabók manuscript
• 5. Finnboga saga and the settlement of Iceland
• 6. Icelanders and the Norwegian court
• 6.1. Chieftains in Iceland and Norway
• 6.2. Challenging royal power
• 6.3. The Icelandic free-men
• 6.4. The guardians of the law
• 7. Presentations of the settlement of Iceland: Haralds saga ins hárfagra (Fríssbók) and other sagas
• 8. Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Ólafslög
• Appendix 2. Documents of the Submission
• Appendix 3. Haraldr inn hárfagri in the Íslendingasögur
• Bibliography
• Index.