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ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk - AM 113 A Fol
''ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk'' (, Old Norse pronunciation: , ''Book of Icelanders''; ) is a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history. The author was an Icelandic priest, Ari ﾃ柞rgilsson, working in the early 12th century. The work originally existed in two different versions but only the younger one has survived. The older contained information on Norwegian kings, made use of by later writers of kings' sagas. The priest Jﾃｳn Erlendsson in Villingaholt (died 1672) in the service of bishop Brynjﾃｳlfur Sveinsson made two copies of ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk (now AM 113 a fol and AM 113 b fol at the ﾃ〉ni Magnﾃｺsson Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavﾃｭk), the latter one because the bishop was unhappy with the first version. The original copied from is assumed to have dated to ca. 1200. It was lost in the course of the late 17th century, and when ﾃ〉ni Magnﾃｺsson looked for it, it had disappeared without a trace. Style and sources ''ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk'' is a concise work which relates th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk - AM 113 A Fol
''ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk'' (, Old Norse pronunciation: , ''Book of Icelanders''; ) is a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history. The author was an Icelandic priest, Ari ﾃ柞rgilsson, working in the early 12th century. The work originally existed in two different versions but only the younger one has survived. The older contained information on Norwegian kings, made use of by later writers of kings' sagas. The priest Jﾃｳn Erlendsson in Villingaholt (died 1672) in the service of bishop Brynjﾃｳlfur Sveinsson made two copies of ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk (now AM 113 a fol and AM 113 b fol at the ﾃ〉ni Magnﾃｺsson Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavﾃｭk), the latter one because the bishop was unhappy with the first version. The original copied from is assumed to have dated to ca. 1200. It was lost in the course of the late 17th century, and when ﾃ〉ni Magnﾃｺsson looked for it, it had disappeared without a trace. Style and sources ''ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk'' is a concise work which relates th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawspeaker
A lawspeaker or lawman (Swedish language, Swedish: ''lagman'', Old Swedish: ''laghmaﾃｾer'' or ''laghman'', Danish language, Danish: ''lovsigemand'', Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''lagmann'', Icelandic language, Icelandic: , Faroese language, Faroese: ''lﾃｸgmaﾃｰur'', Finnish language, Finnish: ''laamanni'', kl, inatsitinuk) is a unique Scandinavian legal office. It has its basis in a common Germanic oral tradition, where wise people were asked to recite the law, but it was only in Scandinavia that the function evolved into an office. At first, lawspeakers represented the people, and their duties and authority were connected to the assemblies (thing (assembly), ''things''). For most of the last thousand years, however, they were part of the king's administration. Snorri Sturluson (1179窶1241) of Iceland was a famous lawspeaker. He wrote about an 11th-century Torgny the Lawspeaker, lawspeaker named Torgny, but historians doubt the account. Sweden In Sweden, this office was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk
''ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk'' (, Old Norse pronunciation: , ''Book of Icelanders''; ) is a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history. The author was an Icelandic priest, Ari ﾃ柞rgilsson, working in the early 12th century. The work originally existed in two different versions but only the younger one has survived. The older contained information on Norwegian kings, made use of by later writers of kings' sagas. The priest Jﾃｳn Erlendsson in Villingaholt (died 1672) in the service of bishop Brynjﾃｳlfur Sveinsson made two copies of ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk (now AM 113 a fol and AM 113 b fol at the ﾃ〉ni Magnﾃｺsson Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavﾃｭk), the latter one because the bishop was unhappy with the first version. The original copied from is assumed to have dated to ca. 1200. It was lost in the course of the late 17th century, and when ﾃ〉ni Magnﾃｺsson looked for it, it had disappeared without a trace. Style and sources ''ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk'' is a concise work which relates th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnur Jﾃｳnsson
Finnur Jﾃｳnsson (May 29, 1858 窶 March 30, 1934) was an Icelandic-Danish philologist and Professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Copenhagen. He made extensive contributions to the study of Old Norse literature. Finnur Jﾃｳnsson was born at Akureyri in northern Iceland. He graduated from Menntaskﾃｳlinn ﾃｭ Reykjavﾃｭk in 1878 and went to Denmark for further studies at the University of Copenhagen. He received a doctorate in philology in 1884 with a dissertation on skaldic poetry. He became a docent at the university in 1887 and a professor in 1898, serving until 1928. After retiring he continued work on his subject with new publications until the year he died. He was elected member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg in 1905 and corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 1908. Finnur's principal area of study was Old Norse poetry. His three most important works are ''Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infanticide
Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, its main purpose is the prevention of resources being spent on weak or disabled offspring. Unwanted infants were normally abandoned to die of exposure, but in some societies they were deliberately killed. Infanticide is now widely illegal, but in some places the practice is tolerated or the prohibition is not strictly enforced. Most Stone Age human societies routinely practiced infanticide, and estimates of children killed by infanticide in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras vary from 15 to 50 percent. Infanticide continued to be common in most societies after the historical era began, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Phoenicians, ancient China, ancient Japan, Aboriginal Australia, Native Americans, and Native Alaskans. Infanticide became forbidden in Europe and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lﾃｶgberg
Lﾃｶgberg (), or Law Rock, was a rocky outcrop in south west Iceland, at the location for the assembly of the country's Althing parliament. The original Althing was gathered at ﾃ枴ngvellir, an area of dramatic landscapes which was easily accessible from the populated areas of the south west. The exact location of the Lﾃｶgberg is unknown, because of the changing geography of the rift valley over 1000 years. Two possible locations have been identified in ﾃ枴ngvellir, one a flat ledge at the top of a slope named Hallurinn (currently marked by a flagpole), the other in the Almannagjﾃ｡ fault against a rock wall. A site in the Hestagjﾃ｡ ravine has been put forward as ideal. The Lﾃｶgberg was the place on which the Lawspeaker ( ) took his seat as the presiding official of the assembly of the Althing. Speeches and announcements were made from the spot. Anyone attending could make their argument from the Lﾃｶgberg. The gatherings were also convened and dissolved from it. The Lﾃｶgberg performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ﾃ柞rgeirr Ljﾃｳsvetningagoﾃｰi
Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi Thorkelsson ( ; Modern Icelandic: ; born c. 940) was a lawspeaker in Iceland's Althing from 985 to 1001. In the year 999 or 1000, Iceland's legislative assembly was debating which religion they should practice: Norse paganism or Christianity. Thorgeir, himself a pagan priest and chieftain (a ''gothi''), decided in favour of Christianity after a day and a night of silent meditation under a fur blanket, thus averting potentially disastrous civil conflict. Under the compromise, pagans could still practice their religion in private and several of the old customs were retained. After his decision, Thorgeir himself converted to Christianity. Thorgeir's story is preserved in Ari Thorgilsson's ''ﾃ行lendingabﾃｳk''. References External linksChristianity from a site on the Icelandic parliament. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ljosvetningagodi, Thorgeir Lawspeakers Converts to Christianity from pagan religions Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi 940s births 11th-century deaths Year o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ﾃ杪ngbrandr
ﾃ杪ngbrandr was a missionary sent to Iceland by king of Norway ﾃ斗ﾃ｡fr Tryggvason to convert the inhabitants to Christianity. Snorri Sturluson described him as follows: Origins ﾃ杪ngbrandr's origins are uncertain. According to some sources, he was the son of an otherwise unknown Vilbaldus, count of Saxony or of Bremen.'' ﾃ斗ﾃ｡fs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta''. But he is also said to be Flemish. He may have been a clerk to the bishop of Bremen. However that may be, his name seems to be of German origin, and may come from Old High German ''*Dankbrant''. Encounter with ﾃ斗ﾃ｡fr The Bishop of Bremen was invited to England by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and ﾃ杪ngbrandr went with him. In England, ﾃ杪ngbrandr was offered a shield with a crucified Christ drawn on it. When they returned to Saxony they met ﾃ斗ﾃ｡fr, who saw ﾃ杪ngbrandr's shield and was pleased with it. The ﾃ杪ngbrandr gave ﾃ斗ﾃ｡fr the shield and, in return, the king promised to help and protect him in case he would n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf I Of Norway
Olaf Tryggvason (960s 窶 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken (Vingulmark, and Rﾃ･nrike), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway. He is numbered as Olaf I. Olaf is seen as an important factor in the conversion of the Norse to Christianity. He is said to have built the first Christian church in Norway, in 995, and to have founded the city of Trondheim in 997. A statue of Olaf Tryggvason is located in the city's central plaza. Historical information on Olaf is sparse. He is mentioned in some contemporary English sources, and some skaldic poems. The oldest narrative source mentioning him briefly is Adam of Bremen's ''Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum'' of ''circa'' 1070. In the 1190s, two Latin versions of ''" ﾃ斗ﾃ｡fs saga Tryggvasonar"'' were written in Iceland, by Oddr Snorrason and by Gunnlaugr Leifsson 窶 these are now lost, but are thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vﾃｭnland
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland ( non, Vﾃｭnland 癩癪≪埓癪壯寉癩ｾ癪) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas, and describes Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as far as northeastern New Brunswick. Much of the geographical content of the sagas corresponds to present-day knowledge of transatlantic travel and North America. In 1960, archaeological evidence of the only known Norse site in North America, L'Anse aux Meadows, was found on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. Before the discovery of archaeological evidence, Vinland was known only from the sagas and medieval historiography. The 1960 discovery further proved the pre-Columbian Norse exploration of mainland North America. L'Anse aux Meadows has been hypothesized to be the camp ''Straumfjﾃｶrﾃｰ'' mentioned in the '' Saga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skrﾃｦling
''Skrﾃｦling'' (Old Norse and Icelandic: ''skrﾃｦlingi'', plural ''skrﾃｦlingjar'') is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland). In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people, the proto-Inuit group with whom the Norse coexisted in Greenland after about the 13th century. In the sagas, it is also used for the peoples of the region known as Vinland whom the Norse encountered and fought during their expeditions there in the early 11th century. Etymology The word is most likely related to the Old Norse word , meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. William Thalbitzer (1932: 14) speculated that might have been derived from the Old Norse verb , meaning "bawl, shout, or yell". In modern Icelandic, means "barbarian", whereas the Danish descendant, , means "weakling". The term is thought to have first been used by in his work , also called ''The Book of the Icelanders' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
