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      Poetry on Christian Subjects

      This volume is devoted to poems of Christian piety, often recorded outside prose contexts, which date from the mid-twelfth to the end of the fourteenth century. They range in subject…

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      Poetry in Fornaldarsogur

      This volume contains all the anonymous poetry from medieval Icelandic mythical-heroic sagas (fornaldarsogur), such as Heidreks saga, Gautreks saga, and other sagas set in prehistoric Scandinavia and more exotic locations…

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      A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

      Margaret Clunies Ross

      Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia.

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      Old Icelandic Literature and Society

      This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. Leading experts examine the ways in which Iceland’s unique social experiment, a…

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      Old Icelandic Literature and Society

      This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. Leading experts examine the ways in which Iceland’s unique social experiment, a…

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      Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

      Margaret Clunies Ross

      First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.

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      The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception, Volume I: From the Middle Ages to C. 1830

      Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney)

      Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European - and later contemporary - society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before…

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      The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception, Volume II: From C. 1830 to the Present

      Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney)

      Over the millennia since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European - and later contemporary - society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of…

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      The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga

      Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney)

      With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is designed for students of medieval literature and assumes no…

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      The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga

      Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney)

      With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is designed for students of medieval literature and assumes no…

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      Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross

      This volume presents twenty essays by leading scholars of Old Norse which bring into focus the nature of learned traditions - both oral and written - in medieval Scandinavia and…

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      The Old Norse Poetic Translations of Thomas Percy

      Thomas Percy,Margaret Clunies Ross

      Thomas Percy was the first serious translator of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry into English. He published his Five Pieces of Runic Poetry in London in 1763 and in 1770 published his…

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