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Network analysis of the Íslendinga sögur – the Sagas of Icelanders
Published 2013“…The Íslendinga sögur – or Sagas of Icelanders – constitute a collection of medieval literature set in Iceland around the late 9th to early 11th centuries, the so-called Saga Age. …”
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Perception of the Sagas Of Icelanders in Modern Icelandic Crime Novels
Published 2019-04-01“…Key words: modern Icelandic literature, the sagas of Icelanders, Icelandic crime novel, perception, intertextuality. …”
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A networks approach to mythological epics
Published 2016“…Many ancient narratives – from the sagas of Icelanders, through epics such as the Iliad and Beowulf, to the stories contained in medieval Irish manuscripts – record multiple interactions between sometimes vast numbers of characters and social network analysis is an excellent tool to quantify their collective properties. …”
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Where be dragons?
“…It will focus on “legendary sagas” and "chivalric sagas" due to prevalence of the material, but also include episodes from "sagas of Icelanders", "kings’ sagas" and other texts adjacent to those genres.…”
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Sagas and genre: a case for application of network analysis to manuscripts preserving Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature
Published 2023“…The study identifies two main communities within the network: a community of romances, or works of narrative fiction, which includes mainly legendary sagas (<em>fornaldarsögur</em>) and chivalric sagas (<em>riddarasögur</em>), and a community of historicizing narratives, or pseudo-history, which includes mainly sagas of Icelanders (<em>Íslendingasögur</em>) and kings’ sagas (<em>konungasögur</em>).…”
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The literary reception of Old Norse myth in medieval Iceland
Published 2015“…<p>This thesis addresses the incorporation of mythological patterns, characters, and motifs in selected <em>Íslendingasögur</em> (sagas of Icelanders) and <em>fornaldarsögur</em> (sagas of ancient times). …”
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The role of the storyteller in old Norse literature
Published 2017“…Chapters Three and Four contain close readings of passages from the Sagas of Icelanders and eddic poetry, which demonstrate how certain characters, often of low social status, temporarily take on the mantle of a storyteller and perform their accounts of events so as to illuminate the texts' broader interest in the mechanics of literary narrative.…”
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Recent Translations of the Medieval Icelandic Bishops' Sagas
Published 2023-06-01“… This article reviews the two most recent English-language translations of medieval sagas of Icelandic bishops, both from 2021: Margaret Cormack's The Saga of St. …”
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Écrire l’histoire d’une faide dans l’Islande du XIIIe siècle. Quelques remarques sur la Saga des Svínfellingar
Published 2016-03-01“…When it is relevant, one establishes a parallel between this feuding system and other examples, taken from other feuding societies, in Saga Age Iceland and in Feudal France.…”
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A Modern-Day Saga in Fancy Dress: Contemporary Social Critique in Halldór Laxnessʼs Gerpla
Published 2019-12-01“…Rather, by casting the romanticized heroes and ideals of the Viking age in a harsher light, Halldór not only reclaims the sagas, “allowing Icelandic literature to stand for peace instead of war, for life instead of death,” but also consolidates his longstanding role as a vocal opponent of the American military presence in Iceland and global nuclear proliferation. …”
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The sturlung era in modern Icelandic historical prose: Einar Kárason
Published 2022-12-01“…It is based on the Old Icelandic "Sturlunga saga“, in particular, on "The Saga of Icelanders“ by Sturla Thordarson. The writing technique in the tetralogy s nevertheless antipodal to the saga manner: the events are described fragmentary, from the subjective point of view of a variety of persons, also the episodical ones; thus the complexity and the multifaceted character of the historical prcess is being stated. …”
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