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Þorgils Saga Ok Hafliða
''Þorgils saga ok Hafliða'' (the saga of Þorgils and Hafliði) is a medieval Icelandic ''samtíðarsaga'' forming part of the larger, thirteenth-century ''Sturlunga saga''. ''Þorgils saga ok Hafliða'' tells of the chieftains Hafliði Másson and Þorgils Oddason and about the dispute between them in the years 1117–21. The saga was probably composed in the early thirteenth century,Torgils og Havlides saga i Store norske leksikon but possibly as early as 1180 or as late as 1237 (after the death of Bishop Magnús Gissurarson).Jónas Kristjánsson. ''Eddas and sagas, Iceland's Medieval Literature.'' Translated by Peter Foote. Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag, 2007. . Content The conflict arises as a result of misdeeds of Már, a relative of Hafliði, and it leads several killings, and with Þor ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samtíðarsaga
The contemporary sagas (known in Icelandic as ) are: *Bishops' saga *Sturlunga saga {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturlunga Saga
''Sturlunga saga'' (often called simply ''Sturlunga'') is a collection of Icelandic Norse saga, sagas by various authors from the 12th and 13th centuries; it was assembled in about 1300, in Old Norse. It mostly deals with the story of the Sturlungs, a powerful family clan during the eponymous Age of the Sturlungs period of the Icelandic Commonwealth. ''Sturlunga saga'' mostly covers the history of Iceland between 1117 and 1264."Sturlunga saga", Rudolf Simek and Hermann Pálsson, ''Lexikon der altnordischen Literatur'', Kröners Taschenausgabe 490, Stuttgart: Kröner, 1987, , pp. 339–41 It begins with ', the legend of Geirmundr heljarskinn, a regional ruler in late 9th-century Norway, who moves to Iceland to escape the growing power of King Harald I of Norway, Harald Finehair.Jan de Vries (linguist), Jan de Vries, ''Altnordische Literaturgeschichte'', Volume 2 ''Die Literatur von etwa 1150 bis 1300; die Spätzeit nach 1300'', Grundriss der germanischen Philologie 16, 2nd ed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' (, abbreviated ''SNL'') is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. It has several subdivisions, including the Norsk biografisk leksikon. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month. Paper editions (1978–2007) The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1906–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales of paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnús Gissurarson
Magnús Gissurarson (; ; ) was an Icelandic Roman Catholic clergyman, who became the eighth bishop of Iceland from 1216 to 1237. He served in the diocese of Skálholt. Magnús Gissurarson was married and had two sons. See also *List of Skálholt bishops A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ... External links Magnús Gissurarson Magnús Gissurarson 1170s births 1236 deaths Married Roman Catholic bishops Magnús Gissurarson {{Iceland-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jónas Kristjánsson
Jónas Kristjánsson (10 April 1924 – 7 June 2014) was an Icelandic scholar and novelist, and one-time director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. In this position, he played a crucial role in the return of Icelandic manuscripts to Iceland from Denmark, representing Iceland in negotiations with the Danish authorities from 1972-86.R ryW. McT rk 'Jónas Kristjánsson 10 April 1924-7 June 2014', ''Saga-Book'', 38 (2014), 113-15 (at 114). Career Jónas was a teacher at the Samvinnuskóli from 1952–55, archivist at the National Archives of Iceland from 1957–63, and the director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies from 1972-94 (from which position he retired upon reaching the age limit).Fjársjóður Íslands Jónas Kristj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thing (assembly)
A thing, also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and Thing (assembly)#Etymology, by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic peoples, Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by a lawspeaker. Things took place regularly, usually at prominent places accessible by travel. They provided legislative functions, as well as social events and trade opportunities. In modern usage, the meaning of this word in English and other languages has shifted to mean not just an assemblage of some sort but simply an object of any kind. Thingstead () or "thingstow" () is the English term for the location where a thing was held. Etymology The word appears in Old Norse, Old English, and modern Icelandic language, Icelandic as , in Middle English (as in modern English), Old Saxon, Old Dutch, and Old Frisian as (the difference between ''þing'' and ''thing'' is purely orthographical), in German language, German as , in Dutch language, Dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnur Jónsson
Finnur Jónsson (May 29, 1858 – March 30, 1934) was an Icelandic philologist and Professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Copenhagen. He made extensive contributions to the study of Old Norse literature. Finnur Jónsson was born at Akureyri in northern Iceland. He graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík 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] |
Fredrik Paasche
Johan Fredrik Paasche (born Amundsen; 3 February 1886 – 1 September 1943) was a Norwegian educator, author and literary historian. Biography Johan Fredrik Amundsen was born in Bindal Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. He was the son of Olaf Kristian Amundsen (1850–1910) and Kirsten Birgitte Paasche (1850–1915). His brother Olaf Amundsen served as County Governor of Nordland. In 1905, he took his mother's surname, Paasche. He graduated from the University of Oslo in 1910. In 1916, he traveled to Germany where he was a war correspondent. He was appointed a professor of European literature in 1920 at the University of Oslo and professor of Middle Age literature from 1938 until 1940. He relocated to Sweden following the German invasion of Norway. From 1941 onward, he was affiliated with Uppsala University, where he received an honorary doctorate in theology. He co-edited the series ''Norsk litteraturhistorie'', planned jointly with Francis Bull from 1911. He wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Dronke
Ursula Miriam Dronke (née Brown, 3 November 1920 – 8 March 2012Heather O'Donoghue"Ursula Dronke obituary: Inspirational teacher of Old Norse literature specialising in the sagas and poetry of medieval Iceland" ''The Guardian'' 25 March 2012.) was an English medievalist and former Vigfússon Reader in Old Norse at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College. She also taught at the University of Munich and in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. Biography Born in Sunderland and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, where her father was a lecturer at Newcastle University, Ursula Brown attended Newcastle Church High School as a girl and began her academic studies as an undergraduate at the University of Tours in 1939, returning to England and enrolling in Somerville College, University of Oxford, after the outbreak of war. She then worked for the Board of Trade until 1946, when she returned to Somerville as a graduate studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
