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Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders

Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders

Firth, Matthew

Paperback

Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismHistoriography

ISBN10: 103250126X
ISBN13: 9781032501260
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact.

The Íslendingasögur present themselves as histories, but they are difficult historical sources. Their setting is the Saga Age, a period that begins with the settlement of Iceland in the late ninth century and ends along with the Viking Age in the late eleventh century-however, the saga texts are disconnected from this setting, having first been written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This book traces the transmission and development of Icelandic cultural memory of Saga Age England across this distance of centuries. It offers case study analyses of how historical time, place, cultures, and events are adapted and conceptualised in the Íslendingasögur and suggests methodological approaches to their study as historical literature.

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