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The Viking Age
A Reader, Third Edition
Price:
$61.00
ISBN: 9781487570477
Pub Date: November 2019
Who were the Vikings, and do they deserve their unsavoury reputation? Through over 100 primary source documents, this fascinating collection weighs the cultural importance and lasting influence of the Vikings.
Nidrstigningar Saga
Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”
Price:
$76.00
ISBN: 9781442697997
Pub Date: January 2018
Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin Evangelium Nicodemi text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia.
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry
Price:
$113.00
ISBN: 9781487500740
Pub Date: January 2017
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.
Egil, the Viking Poet
New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
Price:
$74.00
ISBN: 9781442649699
Pub Date: November 2015
The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory.
Into the Ocean
Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781442646179
Pub Date: March 2015
An interdisciplinary analysis of a subject that has intrigued scholars for generations, Into the Ocean will challenge the assumptions of anyone interested in the Atlantic branch of the Celtic world.
Essays on Eddic Poetry
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442615885
Pub Date: April 2014
Originally published between 1988 and 2008, these twelve essays cover a wide range of mythological and heroic poems and have been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.
The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose
Price:
$102.00
ISBN: 9781442646216
Pub Date: September 2013
With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlist The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.
Snorri Sturluson and the Edda
The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9780802098016
Pub Date: August 2008
Wanner brings us a new account of the interests that motivated the production of the Edda, and resolves the mystery of its genesis by demonstrating the intersection of Snorri's political and cultural concerns and practices.
Sanctity in the North
Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia
Price:
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802094100
Pub Date: February 2008
Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.
Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts
Price:
$93.00
ISBN: 9780802038371
Pub Date: December 2005
The England of Icelandic medieval texts is more of a stage than a country, and chiefly functions to provide saga heroes with fame abroad. Since many of these texts are rarely examined outside of Iceland or in the English language, Fjalldal's book is important for scholars of both medieval Norse culture and Anglo-Saxon England.
Einarr Skúlason's Geisli
A Critical Edition
Price:
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802038227
Pub Date: September 2005
This new critical edition features a version in normalized orthography, as well as a version in prose word order, a translation into English, a complete glossary, an introduction that situates the poem in its context, and substantial explanatory notes.
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
A Critical Guide
Price:
$59.00
ISBN: 9780802038234
Pub Date: April 2005
This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and twenty years later, is now being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field.
A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic
Price:
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802086594
Pub Date: March 2004
First published in England in 1910 and last printed in 1975, Geir T. Zoega's A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic has long been the foremost reference source for the Icelandic language.
Grettir's Saga
Price:
$40.95
ISBN: 9780802061652
Pub Date: December 2001
The saga has an especial modern relevance - a recent translation into Czech reached the top of the best-seller list. The present volume includes genealogies, a study of the legal system, and a critical assessment of the work.
Tools of Literacy
The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Price:
$129.00
ISBN: 9780802047892
Pub Date: February 2001
A thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse, linking the poets of the time with leading families and with ecclesiastical and secular learning.
The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9780802062192
Pub Date: April 1999
The author's probing into the emotional depths of his characters, the superbly effective architecture of his narrative leading to the central climax, his sense of the dramatic, and his cool, compelling style all combine to make this one of the most memorable of all the Icelandic sagas.

The Viking Age
A Reader, Third Edition
$61.00
ISBN: 9781487570477
Pub Date: November 2019
Who were the Vikings, and do they deserve their unsavoury reputation? Through over 100 primary source documents, this fascinating collection weighs the cultural importance and lasting influence of the Vikings.
Nidrstigningar Saga
Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”
$76.00
ISBN: 9781442697997
Pub Date: January 2018
Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin Evangelium Nicodemi text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia.
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry
$113.00
ISBN: 9781487500740
Pub Date: January 2017
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.
Egil, the Viking Poet
New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
$74.00
ISBN: 9781442649699
Pub Date: November 2015
The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory.
Into the Ocean
Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North
$100.00
ISBN: 9781442646179
Pub Date: March 2015
An interdisciplinary analysis of a subject that has intrigued scholars for generations, Into the Ocean will challenge the assumptions of anyone interested in the Atlantic branch of the Celtic world.
Essays on Eddic Poetry
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442615885
Pub Date: April 2014
Originally published between 1988 and 2008, these twelve essays cover a wide range of mythological and heroic poems and have been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.
The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose
$102.00
ISBN: 9781442646216
Pub Date: September 2013
With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlist The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.
Snorri Sturluson and the Edda
The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia
$100.00
ISBN: 9780802098016
Pub Date: August 2008
Wanner brings us a new account of the interests that motivated the production of the Edda, and resolves the mystery of its genesis by demonstrating the intersection of Snorri's political and cultural concerns and practices.
Sanctity in the North
Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802094100
Pub Date: February 2008
Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.
Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts
$93.00
ISBN: 9780802038371
Pub Date: December 2005
The England of Icelandic medieval texts is more of a stage than a country, and chiefly functions to provide saga heroes with fame abroad. Since many of these texts are rarely examined outside of Iceland or in the English language, Fjalldal's book is important for scholars of both medieval Norse culture and Anglo-Saxon England.
Einarr Skúlason's Geisli
A Critical Edition
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802038227
Pub Date: September 2005
This new critical edition features a version in normalized orthography, as well as a version in prose word order, a translation into English, a complete glossary, an introduction that situates the poem in its context, and substantial explanatory notes.
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
A Critical Guide
$59.00
ISBN: 9780802038234
Pub Date: April 2005
This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and twenty years later, is now being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field.
A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802086594
Pub Date: March 2004
First published in England in 1910 and last printed in 1975, Geir T. Zoega's A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic has long been the foremost reference source for the Icelandic language.
Grettir's Saga
$40.95
ISBN: 9780802061652
Pub Date: December 2001
The saga has an especial modern relevance - a recent translation into Czech reached the top of the best-seller list. The present volume includes genealogies, a study of the legal system, and a critical assessment of the work.
Tools of Literacy
The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
$129.00
ISBN: 9780802047892
Pub Date: February 2001
A thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse, linking the poets of the time with leading families and with ecclesiastical and secular learning.
The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw
$38.95
ISBN: 9780802062192
Pub Date: April 1999
The author's probing into the emotional depths of his characters, the superbly effective architecture of his narrative leading to the central climax, his sense of the dramatic, and his cool, compelling style all combine to make this one of the most memorable of all the Icelandic sagas.