Sagas, Saints and Settlements / / edited by Gareth Williams, Paul Bibire.
This volume includes selected papers from an interdisciplinary symposium in Norse Studies held at the University of St Andrews. The symposium brought together scholars with a shared interest in medieval Scandinavian history and culture, especially the sagas, from a variety of disciplines, and this d...
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| Superior document: | The Northern World ; 11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Northern World ;
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| Physical Description: | x, 153 p. :; ill., maps. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The world and its ages: the organisation of an encyclopadeic narratives in MS AM 764 4to
- The question of Genre in the late Islendinga sogur: a Case Study of Porskfirdinga saga
- Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, Pilgrim and Martyr
- Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnus of Orkney
- LAnd Assessment and the Silver Economy of Norse Scotland
- Earldom Strategies in North Scotland
- Scandinavians in Central Scotland- by-place-names and their Context
- Index.