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A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

Clunies Ross, Margaret

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Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1843842793
ISBN13: 9781843842798
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Aug 18 2011
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia.

This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Its aim is to give a clear description of the rich poetic tradition of early Scandinavia, particularly in Iceland, where it reached its zenith, and to demonstrate the social contextsthat favoured poetic composition, from the oral societies of the early Viking Age in Norway and its colonies to the devout compositions of literate Christian clerics in fourteenth-century Iceland.

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