Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvTatjana N. Jackson,Russian Academy of Sciences) Jackson, Tatjana N. (Researcher, Institute of World History

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-15
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBeyond Medieval Europe
Antal sidor228
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781641890267

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Introduction: Sources, Aims, ConventionsPart 1: Eastern Europe in the Old Norse WeltbildChapter 1: Austrhálfa on the “mental map” of medieval ScandinaviansChapter 2: Austrvegr and Other aust-place-namesChapter 3: Austmarr, “the Eastern Sea”, the Baltic SeaChapter 4: Traversing Eastern EuropeChapter 5: East European riversChapter 6: Garðar/Garðaríki as a designation of Old Rus’Chapter 7: Hólmgarðr (Novgorod), and Kænugarðr (Kiev)Chapter 8: Aldeigja/Aldeigjuborg, “Old Ladoga”Chapter 9: “Hǫfuð garðar” in Hauksbók, and Some Other Old Russian TownsChapter 10: BjarmalandPart 2: Four Norwegian kings in Old Rus’Chapter 1: Óláfr TryggvasonChapter 2: Óláfr HaraldssonChapter 3: Magnús ÓláfssonChapter 4: Haraldr SigurðarsonBibliographyIndex

The Quellenwert of the Icelandic sagas has long aroused controversy among scholars, especially between historians and those specializing in philology or literature.[...] Fortunately for historians, Tatjana Jackson [...] endorses the more balanced position of T. M. Andersson, Gísli Sigurðsson and others concerning the interplay between the spoken and the written word, whereby writers of sagas drew upon both components. And she approaches the Old Norse Kings’ Sagas in light of Aron Gurevich’s dictum: it is “not a question of whether to use the sagas ..., but of how.”