Tools of literacy : the role of skaldic verse in Icelandic textual culture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries /

A thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse, linking the poets of the time with leading families and with ecclesiastical and secular learning.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nordal, Guđrún
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Scalds and scaldic poetry > History and criticism.
Scalds and scaldic poetry > Social aspects.
Poésie scaldique > Histoire et critique.
Poésie scaldique > Aspect social.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Scalds and scaldic poetry
Skaldenpoëzie.
Oudnoords.
Grammatica.
Dichtkunst.
Culturele aspecten.
Altnordische Literatur > Geschichte 12. Jh.
Altnordische Literatur > Geschichte 13. Jh.
Skaldendichtung > Island > Geschichte.
Island > Skaldendichtung > Geschichte.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Skaldic Verse and Learning
  • The Twelfth Century
  • Drottkvaett and the study of grammatica
  • The grammatical literature
  • Hattalykill
  • A twelfth-century poet: Bishop Kloeingr Porsteinsson
  • Snorra Edda and the Study of Grammatica
  • Manuscript textuality
  • The medieval codices of Snorra Edda
  • The manuscripts of Snorra Edda and the grammatical literature
  • The Sources and the Thirteenth-Century Poet
  • Sources of Skaldic Verse
  • Textbooks and treatises
  • Translations from Latin
  • A saint's life
  • Historical writing
  • The Poet's Profession
  • Professional poets
  • Aristocratic poets in Iceland
  • Clerics as poets
  • Excursus: The Thirteenth-Century Poet
  • Unknown thirteenth-century poets listed in both versions of Skaldatal and their patrons
  • Twelfth-century poets in Sturlunga saga
  • Known thirteenth-century poets
  • Theory and Practice in Skaldic Poetics
  • Theoretical Discussion of the Kenning
  • The Kenning in vernacular literary theory
  • The fusion of vernacular and Latin traditions
  • The Kenning in grammatica
  • Categories of meaning in Skaldskaparmal and Litla Skalda
  • Pulur
  • Theory and Practice in Skaldic Verse
  • The Poetic treatises
  • The human body dismembered in skaldic diction
  • Sources of Inspiration
  • Cosmology, Learning, and Body Imagery
  • Neoplatonist ideas and the world-body
  • Ymir's body in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning
  • The poetic landscape in body imagery
  • Cosmological imagery
  • Natural landscape
  • Flora
  • The human body
  • Digging for Gold in Skaldic Verse.

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