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Morkinskinna : the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (1030-1157) /

"Morkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Norway (1030-1157), forms the basis of the Icelandic chronicle tradition. Based ultimately on an original from ca. 1220, the single defective manuscript was written in Iceland ca. 1275. The pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andersson, Theodore Murdock, 1934- (Editor , Traductor), Gade, Kari Ellen (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Icelandic
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Colección:Islandica ; 51.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Patrick J. Stevens
  • The Narrative
  • The Manuscripts
  • The Native Sources
  • The Poetic Corpus of AEMsk and the Question of Interpolation
  • The Oral Sources
  • Time and Place of Composition
  • Toward a Profile of the Author
  • The Text of Morkinskinna
  • Textual Notes
  • Explanatory Notes
  • Notes on Stanzas
  • App. A. Concordance of Episodes in Fagrskinna and Heimskringla
  • App. B. The Latin Compendium of Hakon Ivarsson.