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Auðr Vésteinsdóttir
Auðr Vésteinsdóttir (anglicised as Aud) is a character in '' Gísla saga súrssonar''. The loyal wife of the protagonist, Gísli, she harbours him during his outlawry, protects her nephews from him, and responds violently to attempts by his enemies to bribe her or to attack Gísli. Scholars have highlighted her heroic strength of character and the stability of her and Gísli’s marriage. ''Gísla saga'' Auðr is the daughter of Vésteinn and the sister of Vésteinn Vésteinsson. She marries Gísli súrsson and lives with him and his brother Þorkell at their farm, Hol. Together they care for a foster-daughter, Gúðríðr. The main feud of the saga begins when Þorkell overhears his wife, Ásgerðr, talking with Auðr about their previous romantic entanglements. Gísli's brother-in-law Þorgrímr (or perhaps Þorkell) murders Vésteinn, and Gísli kills Þorgrímr in retribution, for which he is outlawed. Moving to a newly built home at Geirþjófsfjörður, Auðr manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisle Med Aud Och Gudrid
Gisle is a given name. Notable people with the given name include: *Gisle Ellingsen (born 1965), Norwegian high jumper *Gisle Elvebakken (born 1970), Norwegian speed skater *Gisle Fenne (born 1963), Norwegian biathlete *Gisle Johnson (1822–1894), Norwegian theologian and educator *Gisle Johnson (Scouting) (1934–2014), Norwegian chief scout *Gisle Hannemyr (born 1953), Norwegian computer scientist *Gisle Kverndokk (born 1967), Norwegian contemporary composer *Gisle Midttun (1881–1940), Norwegian cultural historian and museologist *Gisle Meininger Saudland (born 1986), Norwegian politician *Gisle Saga (born 1974), Norwegian music producer and songwriter *Gisle Straume (1917–1988), Norwegian actor and theatre director *Gisle Torvik (born 1975), Norwegian jazz musician {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gísla Saga
''Gísla saga Súrssonar'' (, ''The saga of Gísli the Outlaw'') is one of the sagas of Icelanders. It tells the story of Gísli, a tragic hero who must kill one of his brothers-in-law to avenge another brother-in-law. Gisli is forced to stay on the run for thirteen years before he is hunted down and killed. The events depicted in the saga took place between 860 and 980. Manuscripts and dating ''Gísla saga'' survives in thirty-three manuscripts and fragments from the Middle Ages down to the twentieth century. It is generally thought to have been composed in written form in the first half of the thirteenth century, but the earliest manuscript, the fragment Reykjavík, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, AM 445 c I 4to, is from around 1400 and the earliest extensive text in AM 556a 4to, from the later fifteenth. The saga is generally thought to exist in three main versions originating in the Middle Ages: * the 'fragmentary version' (attested by AM 445 c I 4to, often known in scholarship as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outlaw
An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In Germanic law, early Germanic law, the death penalty is conspicuously absent, and outlawing is the most extreme punishment, presumably amounting to a death sentence in practice. The concept is known from Roman law, as the status of ''homo sacer'', and persisted throughout the Middle Ages. A secondary meaning of outlaw is a person systematically avoiding capture by evasion and violence. These meanings are related and overlapping but not necessarily identical. A fugitive who is declared outside protection of law in one jurisdiction but who receives asylum and lives openly and obedient to local laws in another jurisdiction is an outlaw in the first meaning but not the seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorkel At Auda And Asgerda's Bower
Thorkel or Thorkell (Þórkæll / Þorkell) is an Old Norse masculine personal name. Among the more famous holders of the name are: *Thorkel of Namdalen, ninth-century jarl and father of Ketil Trout. *Thorkell Súrsson, tenth-century Icelander and character in the ''Gísla saga''. *Thorkell Eyjólfsson, Icelandic goði of the late tenth and early eleventh century, husband of Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir and stepfather of Bolli Bollason. *Thorkell Arden, eleventh-century progenitor of the Arden family, one of only three Anglo-Saxon noble families to survive the Norman Conquest with their position and properties intact. Distant ancestor of the playwright William Shakespeare. *Thorkell the Tall, eleventh-century Jomsviking leader and jarl. *Thorkell Leifsson, Greenlandic goði of the eleventh century and son of explorer Leif Eriksson. * Thorkel Fóstri ("Foster-father Thorkel"), foster father of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Jarl of Orkney c. 1020–1064. *Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson Þorkell Sigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fosterage
Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of patronage, whereby influential families cemented political relationships by bringing up each other's children, similar to arranged marriages, also based on dynastic or alliance calculations. This practice was once common in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Fosterage in Scotland In medieval Highland society there was a system of fosterage among clan leaders, where boys and girls would leave their parents' house to be brought up in that of other chiefs, creating a fictive bond of kinship that helped cement alliances and mutual bonds of obligation. In his '' A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedeby
Hedeby (, Old Norse: ''Heiðabýr'', German: ''Haithabu'') was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Around 965, chronicler Ibrahim ibn Yaqub visited Hedeby and described it as "a very large city at the very end of the world's ocean." Due to its unique position between the Frankish Empire and the Danish Kingdom, the settlement developed as a trading centre at the head of a narrow, navigable inlet known as the Schlei, which connects to the Baltic Sea. The location was favorable because there is a short portage of less than 15 km to the Treene River, which flows into the Eider with its North Sea estuary, making it a convenient place where goods and ships could be pulled on a corduroy road overland for an almost uninterrupted seaway between the Baltic and the North Sea and avoid a dangerous and time-consuming ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freydís Eiríksdóttir
Freydís Eiríksdóttir (born 965) was an Icelandic woman said to be the daughter of Erik the Red (as in her patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of North America as an early colonist of Vinland, while her brother, Leif Erikson, is credited in early histories of the region with the first European contact. The medieval and primary sources that mention Freydís are the two Vinland sagas: the '' Saga of the Greenlanders'' and the ''Saga of Erik the Red''. The two sagas offer differing accounts, though Freydís is portrayed in both as one of the strongest female Vikings. ''Saga of the Greenlanders'' The ''Saga of the Greenlanders'' is a crude version of the accounts that happened to the Norse in Vinland. Freydís' experiences in Vinland are relayed in Chapter 8 of this saga, which describes her as Leif Erikson's full sister. This is the most famous account we have of Freydís. After the success of expeditions to Vinland led by Leif Erikson, Þorvaldr Eir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Þórdís Súrsdóttir
Þórdís or Thordis is an Icelandic name. Notable people with the name include: *Þórdís Árnadóttir (1933–2013), Icelandic swimmer *Thordis Brandt (born 1940), German-American actress *Thordis Elva, Icelandic author *Þórdís Gísladóttir (born 1965), Icelandic author *Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir (born 1993), Icelandic footballer *Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir (born 1987), Icelandic politician *Þórdís Kristmundsdóttir (born 1948), Icelandic professor *Thordis Loa Thorhallsdottir (born 1965), Icelandic politician {{DEFAULTSORT:Thordis Icelandic feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Johnston (Viking Society)
Amy Johnston (''née'' Leslie, d. 1925) was a British medievalist specialising in the history of the Northern Isles who served on the board of the Viking Society for Northern Research for 23 years. A member of the Viking Society since 1894, Amy Leslie served as its Hon. Convener in 1901–4, Hon. Secretary in 1904–24, and Hon. Editor of ''Saga-Book'' and ''Year Book'' 1914–25. In 1902 she portrayed Auðr Vésteinsdóttir in a Society reading of ''Gísla saga''. In September 1905 she married architect Alfred Wintle Johnston. She and her husband were editors of the Society’s series ''Old-Lore Miscellany'', producing eight volumes between 1907 and 1920. They also edited short series of ''Orkney and Shetland Records'' and ''Caithness and Sunderland Records''. Amy died in 1925. References External links Amy Johnstonat Online Books Page The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet. It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and is hosted by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Society For Northern Research
The Viking Society for Northern Research is a group dedicated to the study and promotion of the ancient culture of Scandinavia. Founded in London in 1892 as the Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society or the Viking Club, its name was changed in 1902 to the Viking Club or Society for Northern Research, and in 1912 to its present name. Its journal, ''Saga-Book'', publication of editions, translations, and scholarly studies, and since 1964 the Dorothea Coke Memorial Lectures, have been influential in the field of Old Norse and Scandinavian-British Studies. History The club was initially founded as a social and literary society for those from Orkney and Shetland. After some debate, this was broadened to include all those interested in the Norsemen and the history of the North, and an inaugural session of the reconstituted Viking Club or Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society was held at the King's Weigh House Rooms on 12 January 1894. It was mocked in the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' under the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Saga Of Gisli
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
