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

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

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

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Iceland

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic--its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund's Iceland Imagined.

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. The earliest visions of a wild frontier, filled with dangerous and unpredictable inhabitants, eventually gave way to images of beautiful, well-managed lands, inhabited by simple but virtuous people living close to nature. This transformation was accomplished by state-sponsored natural histories of Iceland which explained that the monsters described in medieval and Renaissance travel accounts did not really exist, and by artists who painted the Icelandic landscapes to reflect their fertile and regulated qualities. Literary scholars and linguists who came to Iceland and Greenland in the nineteenth century related the stories and the languages of the "wild North" to those of their home countries.

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

• Rank: #1838618 in Books
• Published on: 2011-05-06
• Released on: 2011-05-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .91" w x 6.30" l, 1.16 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 280 pages

Women in the Viking Age

Women in the Viking Age
by Judith Jesch
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Iceland

This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores anunfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world.

• Rank: #461918 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x .51" w x 6.14" l, .78 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

• ISBN13: 9780851153605
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Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland

Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland
by Sigurur Gylfi Magnusson
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Iceland

• Rank: #932302 in Books
• Published on: 2010-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.30 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

• ISBN13: 9781861896612
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Iceland: Land of the Sagas

Iceland: Land of the Sagas
by Jon Krakauer, David Roberts
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Iceland

"We raised our fists and cheered. . . . With the sagas in our heads, with Iceland at its wildest beneath our boots, it would not have been impossible to see Bárdr clumping along the summit ridge, prodding the glacier with his staff, ready to show us the way down."

Iceland is a pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries in Europe--reissued for the first time in paperback.
        Iceland is often thought to be covered by ice, but in fact it is gloriously green. Lush meadows, wildflower fields, and miles of rich tundra cover a landscape of remarkable variety: deep lakes, bubbling hot springs, tumbling waterfalls, snow-capped mountains. It's also a landscape amazingly alive with massive lava flows and enormous glaciers. The human story of Iceland goes back more than eleven thousand years, and its heritage is told here in a treasury of riveting sagas of real-life heroes and all manner of supernatural beings.
        Both the land and the people of one of Europe's most gorgeous countries come to life in this colorful account of the authors' adventures as they walk, climb, and photograph their way through Iceland and connect to the bone-chilling sagas and the unfamiliar terrain. With breathtaking photographs from critically acclaimed writer and journalist Jon Krakauer, author of the international bestsellers Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, and a penetrating narrative from Outside contributing editor and travel writer David Roberts, Iceland splendidly captures the spirit of this enigmatic country.
        Circumnavigating Iceland in summer and winter, Krakauer and Roberts encounter tales of monks and Vikings, outlaws and adventurers, trolls and witches. While touring and photographing, they discover the myths and legends of Iceland's stirring history. Numerous other feats--including a hazardous winter climb to the summit of one of Iceland's tallest mountains--round out a fascinating introduction to this unique and beautiful land.

• Rank: #33624 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-06
• Released on: 1998-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 12.01" h x .51" w x 8.50" l, 1.60 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Iceland

Iceland
by Jonathan Porter, Eliot Porter

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Iceland

A revelation of the color and majesty of Ireland's primordial landscape, as seen through the eyes of master photographer Eliot Porter. 56 color illustrations.

• Rank: #1566670 in Books
• Published on: 1989-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 126 pages

Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power

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: #560731 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .59" w x 5.51" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages