The Book of Reykjaholar, produced on the very eve of the Reformation, investigates what may be considered the last medieval legendary. The legendary's significance resides in its preserving in Icelandic translation a group of otherwise unattested medieval Low German saints' lives. Marianne E. Kalinke presents a literary analysis of the Reykjaholar legendary, demonstrating what kind of sources the translator used in his compilation and how he collected, combined, and adapted these texts to suit his Icelandic audience. The book also offers stylistic, thematic, and comparative...
The Book of Reykjaholar, produced on the very eve of the Reformation, investigates what may be considered the last medieval legendary. The...
This is a source where students and teachers can find both broad and in depth studies of topics from the Grail and Tristan and Isolde to Arthurian operas and the historicity of Arthur.
This is a source where students and teachers can find both broad and in depth studies of topics from the Grail and Tristan and Isolde to Arthurian ope...
This three-volume set of editions and translations celebrates the literary and cultural connections between the Nordic countries and France that helped to bring Tristan and the Arthurian romances northward... thus the entire set of texts can be read as a study in Norse literary patronage, of literary renewal and transformation... A major contribution, not only to the Old Norse field, but to the broader world of medieval literature and culture. Norse Romance will endure for years to come. SPECULUM Norse Romances comprises a three-volume set, making available for the first time critical...
This three-volume set of editions and translations celebrates the literary and cultural connections between the Nordic countries and France that helpe...
