- Title
- Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas
- Author
- Tatjana Jackson
- Price
- € 99,00
- ISBN
- 9781641890267
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 15 - 03 - 2019
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Partner
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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Introduction: Sources, Aims, Conventions
Part 1: Eastern Europe in the Old Norse Weltbild
Chapter 1: Austrhálfa on the Ÿmental mapŒ of medieval Scandinavians
Chapter 2: Austrvegr and Other aust-place-names
Chapter 3: Austmarr, Ÿthe Eastern SeaŒ, the Baltic Sea
Chapter 4: Traversing Eastern Europe
Chapter 5: East European rivers
Chapter 6: Gar¿ar/Gar¿aríki as a designation of Old Rus’
Chapter 7: Hólmgar¿r (Novgorod), and Kænugar¿r (Kiev)
Chapter 8: Aldeigja/Aldeigjuborg, ŸOld LadogaŒ
Chapter 9: ŸHofu¿ gar¿arŒ in Hauksbók, and Some Other Old Russian Towns
Chapter 10: Bjarmaland
Part 2: Four Norwegian kings in Old Rus’
Chapter 1: Ôláfr Tryggvason
Chapter 2: Ôláfr Haraldsson
Chapter 3: Magnús Ôláfsson
Chapter 4: Haraldr Sigur¿arson
Bibliography
Index
Tatjana Jackson
Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas
Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware: namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mid-eleventh centuries.
Author
Tatjana Jackson
Tatjana N. Jackson is the leading Russian Scandinavianist and author of more than ten books and three hundred papers on Russian-Scandinavian relations of the Middle Ages.
