Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Bookish Riddarasögur

Writing Romance in Late Mediaeval Iceland

Bookish Riddarasögur( )
Author: Barnes, Emerita Geraldine
Series title:The Viking Collection
ISBN:978-87-7674-791-6
Publication Date:Apr 2014
Publisher:University Press of Southern Denmark
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $37.00
Book Description:

This book deals with a fascinating, but largely neglected, area of late medieval Icelandic literature: the indigenous prose romances, generally known as riddarasogur (i.e. sagas of knights), a group of some 30 sagas composed in Iceland from the late 13th or early 14th century onwards. These sagas take place in an exotic (non-Scandinavian), vaguely chivalric, milieu and are characterized by the extensive use of foreign motifs and a strong supernatural or fabulous element. Although the...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:212
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Medieval
Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.75 x 8.5 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.89 Pounds



Featured Books

Master Slave Husband Wife
Woo, Ilyon
Paperback: $19.99
Angels Fall
Roberts, Nora
Paperback: $16.99
The Velveteen Rabbit
Williams, Margery
Paperback: $9.95

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.