Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by Karen Oslund

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Iceland

This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe.

Karen Oslund is assistant professor of world history at Towson University in Maryland.

"One should read this book for its history of ideas and perceptions and its grasp of the tensions that exist and have existed at cultural frontiers." -Geographical Review

"Sure to be of interest to those studying Iceland and the North Atlantic's culture and environmental history and those interested in the European understanding of that region." -Choice

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• Published on: 2013-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Iceland the Warm Country of the North

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Iceland the Warm Country of the North
Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson (Author), Torfi H. Tulinius (Author)

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• Rank: #151861 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11
• Original language: Icelandic
• Binding: Hardcover
• 143 pages

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Nancy Marie Brown (Author)
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Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid’s story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman’s last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be.

• Rank: #415725 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.91" h x .59" w x 5.20" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter (Social History of Canada)

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Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter (Social History of Canada)
by Laura Goodman Salverson

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• Published on: 1981-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 430 pages

Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics)

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Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics)
Anonymous (Author), Hermann Palsson (Translator), Paul Edwards (Translator)
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Demon, killer and drunkard, poet, lawyer and farmer: Egil is on eof the most individual and paradoxical characters to emerge from the Icelandic sagas.

• Rank: #236292 in Books
• Published on: 1977-02-24
• Released on: 1977-02-24
• Original language: Icelandic
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World

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Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World
by Charles Fergus
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Iceland

Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Iceland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky. In Summer at Little Lava, Charles Fergus tells how he fixed up an abandoned house on the farm and spent a summer there with his wife and their young son-living day to day in great simplicity, without heat, electricity, running water, or other conveniences. Inspired by Henry Beston's classic book, The Outermost House-about a year Beston spent living in a cottage on Cape Cod-Fergus sought a place at the outer limits of civilization, and on the coast of Iceland he found it. As it happened, there was a sudden death in his family-the cruel, pointless murder of his mother at her home in Pennsylvania; and so, in the twilit open spaces of Iceland, Fergus confronted his grief, in the midst of the country's abundant wildlife and distinctive geology, its history and mythology. The little house on the coast became a refuge as he sought to recover himself and the meaning of his life. "Little Lava was a place where I could pass the days in peace," he tells us, "where I could take the first steps into a future that, I hoped, would not be so dimmed with grief and pain." Summer at Little Lava is a wise and vigilant book. It touches on Iceland and Icelanders, birds and nature, tragedy and personal loss; in strong, resonant prose, it evokes the strange and compelling landscape of Iceland.

• Rank: #137660 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 289 pages

The Poetic Edda [Illustrated]

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The Poetic Edda [Illustrated]
Snorri Sturluson (Author), Henry Adams Bellows (Author), Henry Adams Bellows (Translator)
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Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.

This translation of the Poetic Eddas is highly readable. They are also a primary source for our knowledge of ancient Norse paganism.

The poems are great tragic literature, with vivid descriptions of the emotional states of the protagonists, Gods and heroes alike. Women play a prominent role in the Eddic age, and many of them are delineated as skilled warriors.

The impact of these sagas from a sparsely inhabited rocky island in the middle of the Atlantic on world culture is wide-ranging. Wagners' operas are largely based on incidents from the Edda, via the Niebelungenlied. J.R.R. Tolkien also plundered the Eddas for atmosphere, plot material and the names of many characters in the Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings.

329 pages.

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• Published on: 2008-02-18
• Released on: 2008-02-18
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Waking Up in Iceland

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Waking Up in Iceland
by Paul Sullivan
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Iceland

Thanks to a thriving pop music scene, Iceland has recently acquired a reputation for being one of the most hip locales in Europe, a fact that has led more and more vistors to explore the rest of the country's culture and sights.

• Rank: #245547 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Icelandic Bird Guide

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Icelandic Bird Guide
by J. O. Hilmarsson

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Iceland

• Rank: #1710233 in Books
• Published on: 2011-01-30
• Binding: Paperback
• 341 pages

Brief History of Iceland

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Brief History of Iceland
by Gunnar Karlsson
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Iceland

• Rank: #184955 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-31
• Original language: Icelandic
• Binding: Paperback
• 72 pages

A Short Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Old Norsk Tongue or Icelandic Language

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A Short Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Old Norsk Tongue or Icelandic Language
by Rasmus Kristian Rask

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Iceland

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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• Published on: 2009-05-us.html
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.00" h x .28" w x 7.99" l, .33 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 130 pages

Icelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity in Iceland

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Icelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity in Iceland
by Loftur Reimar Gissurarson, Jr., William H. Swatos
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Icelandic Spiritualism is an engaging social anthropological study of the place of spiritualism in Icelandic church and society during the first half of the twentieth century. Challenging standard theoretical approaches to the study of religion, the book contributes a wealth of data on the history of religion and psychical research, presenting it in a vivid descriptive narrative.

The authors trace the role of the spirit world in Icelandic culture, giving particular attention to the distinctive history of Iceland's "conversion" to Christianity. They focus on the appearance of "modern" spiritualism as a distinct phenomenon in Icelandic life. The book studies the interaction between various groups in fin-de-siecle Icelandic society, not least in the state church, as mediumistic phenomena became widely reported through the newspapers.

To some, Icelandic spiritualism may be considered a deviant case of Protestantism. What makes this book interesting, however, is that the spiritualism is seen as integral to Iceland's transition to modernity. While Icelandic Spiritualism concentrates mainly on the first half of the twentieth century, it also provides a summary of the continuation of spiritualist phenomena up to the current period. This intriguing study will be of interest to theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists.

• Rank: #249431 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 269 pages

Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power

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Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
by Jesse L. Byock
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Iceland

The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned.

• Rank: #216951 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .63" w x 5.51" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

Waking Up In Iceland

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Waking Up In Iceland
Paul Sullivan (Author)
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Iceland

Iceland is one of the most unique and fascinating countries in the world. A visually stunning island full of glaciers, volcanoes, lava fields and snow-capped mountains, the homeland of Bjork now boasts a thriving pop-music scene, its capital, Reykjavik, recently acquiring a reputation for being one of the most painfully hip locales in Europe. Once perceived as cold, isolated outpost, Iceland is now one of the continent's most desirable travel destinations.

Set principally in Reykjavik, Waking Up In Iceland is a detailed guide to not only the music scene but also the city and country in general, providing advice on where to stay, places to visit for the musically minded and where to find guided tours for those essential day trips out.

• Rank: #79350 in eBooks
• Published on: 2011-08-01
• Released on: 2011-08-01
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Brennu-Njals saga (Icelandic Edition)

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Brennu-Njals saga (Icelandic Edition)
Saemundur Frothi (Author)

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Iceland

This is the Icelandic original version of Brennu-Njáls saga or "The Story of Burnt Njal" is one of the sagas of Icelanders. The most prominent characters are the friends Njáll Þorgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnarr Hámundarson, a formidable warrior. In the course of a feud, Gunnarr is exiled and must leave Iceland but as he rides away from his home he is struck by the beauty of the land and resolves to stay; this quickly leads to his death. Some years later, Njáll is burned alive in his home as a part of a cycle of killing and vengeance.

• Rank: #140621 in eBooks
• Published on: 2011-11-14
• Released on: 2011-11-14
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm

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Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm
Johann Sigurjonsson (Author)

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• Published on: 2012-12-27
• Released on: 2012-12-27
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Iceland (Enchantment of the World. Second Series)

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Iceland (Enchantment of the World. Second Series)
by Barbara A. Somervill
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Iceland

Take a trip around the world with the latest entries in the Enchantment of the World series. From the volcanoes of Iceland to the hilltop castles of Germany, readers are transported to distant lands with the fascinating text and attention-grabbing photos in these books. Each country's culture, history, and geography are explored in detail, allowing readers a chance to see how people live in faraway nations.

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• Colorful photos provide breathtaking views of foreign cities and landscapes
• Sidebars highlight especially interesting people, places, and events
• Delicious, easy recipes give readers the opportunity to experience foreign cuisine firsthand
• Fun facts and statistics are included for easy reference
• Additional content for further learning on this subject available at www.factsfornow.scholastic.com

• Rank: #377811 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Library Binding
• 144 pages

Volcano: Iceland's Inferno and Earth's Most Active Volcanoes

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Volcano: Iceland's Inferno and Earth's Most Active Volcanoes
by Ellen Prager
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Iceland

This dazzlingly illustrated volcano guide documents the 20 hottest volcanoes of the 1,900 that pockmark Earth's surface, including recent eruptions that seared landscapes and lives. It is a relevant reference for the 500+ million people who live in active volcano zones and others who are intrigued by our planet's primal pageantry.

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• Published on: 2010-06-01
• Released on: 2010-06-01
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• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Stories of the Vikings

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Stories of the Vikings
Mary MacGregor (Author)

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Ring of Seasons: Iceland - its Culture and History

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Ring of Seasons: Iceland - its Culture and History
by Terry G. Lacy
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Iceland

An island with a rich and ancient literature. A land of hot springs and volcanoes. A country with an extraordinary history, a challenging geography, and a vibrant contemporary culture. Terry G. Lacy brings both the perspective of an outsider end the familiar eye of a long-term resident to this delightful exploration of all facets of Iceland, past and present. She conveys her story with a skillful interlacing of history, religion, politics, and culture to paint a vivid picture of the way Icelanders live today.

• Rank: #175888 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 295 pages