Old Icelandic Literature and Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521110259)

This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.

Author: Margaret Clunies Ross
ISBN-10: 0521110254
ISBN-13: 9780521110259
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d