The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture in Northern Studies delivered at University College London, 14 March 2002.

The five skaldic poems in this volume are among the finest examples of medieval literature composed in the vernacular in honour of the Virgin Mary....

CONTENTS: Preface to second edition; Introduction; Manuscript & provenance; Ágrip's sources; Style & language; Editorial principles; Orthog...

Abbreviations; Introduction; Bandamanna saga; General Notes; Glossary; Index of names in the saga text.

The four translations assembled here are intended to supplement the early Bishops’ Sagas that are already easily available in translation. The text...

Landnámabók, thought to have been first compiled in the twelfth century, documents the settlement of Iceland through accounts of some 430 settlers,...

Book Of The Islendingabok The Book Of The Icelanders, The Story Of The Conversion

Presents a translation of two early Icelandic histories with introduction and notes.

Danish Kings & the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of Olafr Tryggvason

CONTENTS: Introduction; The Poems & its Author; Influences on the Work; Influence of Later Writers; Evaluation; Preservation; This Edition; Fur...

Contents: Codex Regius, fol. 7v; Abbreviated references; Introduction; Synopsis; The author; The title; The contents of Snorri's Edda; Models and s...

Contents of Volume 1: Introduction; Title; Synopsis; The Composition of the Work; Date and authorship; The verse quotations; The ϸulul; The Dialogu...

Foreword; Select Bibliography; Manuscripts and Fragments Consulted; Egils Saga; Afterword; Glossary; Index of Names; Maps.

Foreword; Select Bibliography; Manuscripts and Fragments Consulted; Egils Saga; Afterword; Glossary; Index of Names; Maps.

This book contains a detailed account of the various types of Icelandic folk-story, their likely origins and sources, the folk-beliefs they represe...

Contents: Preface & Acknowledgements; General Abbreviations; Introduction; Text & Translation; Commentary; Doctrinale Text & Translatio...

Preface; Introduction; Grottasǫngr; Commentary; Bibliography.

The fourteenth-century law codex Guta lag is presented here in translation by Christine Peel. The volume includes full textual notes, including com...

Introduction; Historical Background; Title; Preservation; Contents; Oral and written sources; date and place of composition; Authorship and circums...

Preface; Introduction; Hávamál; Commentary; Bibliography and Abbreviations.

Preface; The Sagas of Heimskringla -- Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction, Snorri and Heimskringla Through the Centuries; Authorship; Snorr...

This is the first part of a new translation in three volumes of Heimskringla, the collection of sagas covering the history of Norway from its legen...

This is the third part in the three-volume translation of Heimskringla

Preface; Introduction; Hervarar Saga Ok Heiđreks; Notes; Glossary; Index of Names.