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  1. Found in translation
    itinerant French epics in medieval Scandinavia
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto

    "This volume contains English translations of three Old Norse-Icelandic renderings of French chansons de geste (Elis saga ok Rosamundu, Bevers saga, and Flovents saga), and of one Icelandic chivalric romance (Baerings saga). The French epics... more

    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    angl8a bestellt 2024/11
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    "This volume contains English translations of three Old Norse-Icelandic renderings of French chansons de geste (Elis saga ok Rosamundu, Bevers saga, and Flovents saga), and of one Icelandic chivalric romance (Baerings saga). The French epics translated into Old Norse-Icelandic were composed under the influence of courtly romance and were anonymous narratives subject to revision and recreation. These translations resulted in a new Icelandic genre, the riddarasaga or chivalric saga, of which Baerings saga is the first."--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Kalinke, Marianne E.; Kalinke, Marianne E.; Kalinke, Marianne E.; Kalinke, Marianne E.
    Language: English; Old Norse
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780888443144; 0888443145
    Series: Mediaeval sources in translation ; 64
    Subjects: Sagas; Old Norse literature; Lays; French poetry; Chivalry in literature; Chevalerie dans la littérature
    Scope: viii, 256 pages, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Issued also in electronic format

  2. The Old Testament in medieval Icelandic texts
    translation, exegesis and storytelling
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  D.S. Brewer, Cambridge

    The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genealogy, place-names, family history, sibling rivalry, conflict and its resolution. Yet the comparison... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2024 A 4190
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    Dg 109
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    EL 550.220
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    The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genealogy, place-names, family history, sibling rivalry, conflict and its resolution. Yet the comparison between these two literatures is rarely made, and biblical translations in Old Norse-Icelandic have been neglected as a focus of literary study. This book aims to redress this neglect. It shows how the likeness between biblical narrative and saga narrative has shaped the reception of the Old Testament in medieval Iceland, even through multiple layers of translation and exegesis. 0 It draws on a wide variety of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, world histories, encyclopaedic works, and the biblical translations collectively known as Stjórn, to explore how medieval Icelanders engaged with Old Testament narrative in the light of their own vernacular tradition of storytelling. And above all, it argues that the medieval Icelanders understood and recognised in these well-known biblical stories a narrative art that was strikingly akin to their own

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English; Old Norse
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781843847120
    Series: Studies in Old Norse literature ; [12]
    Subjects: Christianity and literature; Old Norse literature; Christianisme et littérature - Islande - Histoire; Littérature vieux norroise - Histoire et critique
    Scope: ix, 300 Seiten
  3. The paganesque and the tale of Vo̜lsi
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  D.S. Brewer, Cambridge

    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    Dg 3131
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English; Old Norse
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1843847027; 9781843847021
    Series: Studies in old Norse literature ; [14]
    Subjects: Old Norse literature
    Scope: vii, 222 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index